39B 



CTICTJLID.^. 



to the feathers ; throat black, the feathers on the lower portion 

 with narrow white terminal edges ; all the feathers of the head 

 and neck of the same peculiar form ; breast and under tail-coverts 

 white, with the flanks and thighs mottled with dusky black ; under 

 surface of the wings glossj' blue-black : " iris brown ; bill apple- 

 green, paler at the tip, and the lower mandible lighter than the 

 upper ; legs and feet bluish slate ; claws brownish horn " ( W. V. 

 Lecige). Total length 18-2 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 5-8, tail 11-2, 

 tarsus 1"4. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male: "iris white" 

 {W. V. Legge). Total length 17*5 inches, culmen 1*45, wing 5"7, 

 tail 11'7, tarsus 1'4. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. 

 h, c, d. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 e-q. 6 $ ad. sk. 



r, s. (S ad. sk. 

 t. (S ad. sk. 



M, V. (S ad. sk. 



ic. 2 ad. sk. 



X, y. S 2 ad. sk. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon, Jan., Aug. {Legge). 



Eatnapura, Jan. to March (H. 

 Nevill ^- S. Chapman). 



Eatnapma, Dec. {HaH). 



Balongoma, April (<S'. Chap- 

 man). 



Dambookke, July (6'. Chap- 

 man). 



Friars Wood Forests, Cevlon, 

 Oct. (TF. V. Legge). 



Baddegama, Cevlon, Dee. 

 ( W. V. Legge). 



Purchased. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



27. EHAMPHOCOCCYX. 



TyiDe. 



Rhamphococcyx, Ccth. ^- Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. 

 p. 65 (1862) R. calorhynchus. 



Range. Confined to Celebes. 



1. Rhamphococcyx calorhynchus. 



Phoenicophaus calorhvncbus, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 349 (1825) ; Less. 

 Man. Orn. ii. p. 128 (1828) ; -S'. MitU. Verh. Nat. Ges. Land- en 

 Volk. p. 234, note (183!)-44) ; Schl. 31ns. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, 

 p. Afi (1864); Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 159 (1865); 'Wallace, Malai/ 

 Archip. ii. p. 340 (1869) : Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 205, no. 8866 

 (1870) ; Wald. Trans. Z. S. viii. pp. 52, 53, fig. 5 (1874) ; Le7iz, 

 J.f. O. 1877. p. 371 : Meyer, Lhis, 1879, p. 67; Briiyy. Ahhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. v. p. 57 (1882): Guillemard, P'.'Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 549. 



Melias calorhynchus, I^ess. Traite, p. 132 (1831). 



Zanclostomus calorhynchus, Bhfth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 1098 

 (1842). 



Phoenicophaus melanogaster (nee Vieill.), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. 

 p. 199 (1845) ; id. Cat. B. 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 75 (1849). 



Phcenicophaus callirhvnchus, 5p. Consp. i. p. 98 (1850) ; id. Consp. 

 Vol Zggod. p. 5 (1854) ; J. ^- E. Verr. Pev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 

 p. 356. 



