SURNICULUS. 365 



328. CLAMATOR COROMANDUS ( Liimasus ) . 

 CKESTED CUCKOO. 



Cucuhis coromandus LiNN.i:us, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ( 1700), 1, 171. 



Coccystes coromandus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 214; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 155; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1903), 3, 103, pi. 2, fig. 4; ^IcGeegor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 60. 



Mindanao (Everett) ; Palawan (Bourns <C- M^orcester) ; Siquijur [Bourns tf 

 Worcester) . Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Burmese countries, southern and 

 central China, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes. 



"Adult male. — Entire upper half of head black, strongly glossed with 

 blue on the crest; across the back of the neck a clear white collar; back 

 black, strongly glossed with greenish blue, and passing into glossy olive- 

 green on the scapulars and inner portion of wings; remainder of wings 

 chestnut, with brown ends to the quills; tail glossy violet-black, most of 

 the feathers, especially the outer ones, partially tipped with white; throat 

 chestnut-buff; chest buffy wliite; flanks, abdomen, and thighs grayish ash, 

 passing into violet-black on under tail-coverts; under surface of wings 

 chestnut, fading into buff towards the least coverts, and into brown at 

 the ends of the quills. 'Iris dark brown; bill black, with the pale basal 

 portion of lower mandible light gray; legs, feet, and claws slaty blue.' 

 {Darling.) Length, 406; culmen, 28; wing, 173; tail, 254; tarsus, 25. 



"Adult female. — Similar in plumage to the male, but smaller. Length, 

 381; culmen, 30; wing, 155; tail, 229; tarsus, 25. Colonel Legge states 

 that the female bird is larger than the male, but this is not borne out 

 by the series in the [British] museum. 



"Nestling. — Differs from the adult in having most of the feathers of 

 the upper parts tipped with rufous, the collar being shaded with rufous; 

 the tail-feathers broadly tipped with pale sandy buff; the throat buffy 

 white like the chest, and the under tail-coverts nifous-buff. Length, 350; 

 wing, 160." (Shelley.) 



"Apparently a stranger in tlie Philippines. A single specimen was 

 obtained by Everett in Mindanao. We obtained one specimen in Siquijor, 

 and another in Palawan. Xo other example was met with on our trip. 

 The Palawan specimen, a female, measures, 375 in length ; wing, 153 ; tail, 

 219; culmen, 30; tarsus, 30; middle toe with claw, 29. Iris dark brown; 

 legs, feet, and nails slaty blue ; bill black, pale at base of lower mandible.'*' 

 {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus SFRXICULUS Lesson, 1831. 



Length, about 215 mm; plumage almost entirely black; tail nearly 

 square, tips of tbe feathers turned outward giving the tail a forked ap- 

 pearance like tbat of a drongo (r)icruni.'<) : outer pair of feathers much 

 shorter than the rest. 



