398 CUCTJLIB^. 



Eliinococcyx curvirostris, Shmye, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 604 ; Nicholson, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 140. 



Adidt. Feathers of the upper half of the head leaden grej', 

 partially glossed with green and with elongated black hair-like 

 shafts ; back, wings, and basal two-thirds of tail brilliant deep 

 glossy green, shaded with violet and blue on the quills ; terminal 

 third of tail chocolate-brown ; round the eye a large patch 

 of rough skin without feathers, red, margined below by a broad 

 loral band of grey feathers ; chin pale grey ; throat, sides of neck, 

 and chest chestnut, darker on the latter part and passing into 

 chocolate-brown on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; flanks and 

 thighs dusky black glossed with green ; under surface of the wings 

 glossy blue-black', with a green shade on the coverts ; upper man- 

 dible pale green, with a small portion between the nostril and gape 

 black ; lower mandible black, with an orange mark along the keel. 

 Total length 19-5 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 67, tail 10-5, tarsus 1*65. 



Hob. Java. 



a. Ad. sk. Java. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. Java {Horsfield) . India Museum. 

 e,f, g. Ad. sk. Java. Seebohm CoU. 

 h, i, k. Ad. sk. Java {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 

 I, 7n,n. Skeletons. Java. Purchased. 



29. UROCOCCTX *. 



Ranrje. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan Peninsula 

 to Sumatra and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



u. Throat, under tail-coverts, and portion of 



tail bright rufous erythrognathus, p. ^398. 



h. Throat chocolate-browu ; under taU-coverts 



and entire tail glossy green , ceneicauda, p. 400. 



1. Urococcyx erythroguathus. 



Cuculus melanognathus (wee Horsf.), Raffl. Trans. Limi. Soc. xiii. 



p. 287 (1822). 

 Phceuicophaeus viridis (>iec Vieill.), Blyth, J. A. 8. Bene/, xi. p. 927 



(1842), xiv. p. 199 (1845). 

 Phceuicophseus erythrognathus, Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. 1844, p. 9o ; 



Bp. CoTisp. i. p. 98 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 5 (1854) ; 



J. Si' E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, p. 357 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 203; ScM. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, CucuW, -p. 49 (1864); Graij, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 206, no. 8868 (1870) ; Hume, Sir. F. ii. p. 472 



(1874) : Blyth Sf Wald. Cat. Mamm. 8,- B. Burma, p. 81 (1875) ; 



Briigg. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. v. p. 455 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. 



* Type, U. erythrognathus. 



