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the violet cuckoo inhabiting the Philippine Islands, outside the Palawan 

 group; at the present time, however, sufficient material to Avarrant the 

 separation is not available. 



339. CHALCOCOCCYX MALAYANUS (Raffles). 

 EMERALD CUCKOO. 



Cuculvs malayanus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 280. 



Chalcococcyx malayanus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 298; 

 Shakpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 162; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906), 62. 



Basilan [McGi-egor) ; Bongao [Everett) ; Mindanao [Everett, Celestino) ; 

 Negros [Steere) ; Tawi Tawi [Everett). Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 Timor, Flores, Celebes, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, northern Australia. 



Adult female. — Above including wing and tail dark metallic bronze- 

 green, mixed with dark purple, the latter color more pronounced on 

 head and neck ; some small white spots on lores and above and below eyes ; 

 below white, barred with coppery bronze; throat, fore breast, and sides 

 of neck heavily washed with rich rusty brown which nearly obliterates 

 the white and bronze bars; under wing-coverts and axillars barred with 

 white and bronze; under surface of wing ashy brown; on inner web near 

 the base of each quill a white patch, followed by a larger rufous patch 

 forming a diagonal double band; rectrices rufous, outermost pair barred 

 with black and white and with white tips; next two pairs barred with 

 black and with white tips; fourth pair ashy brown, barred with rufous 

 on outer webs and with tips subterminally blackish; middle pair ashy 

 bro\sTi with obsolete subterminal bars. Iris red; bill black, dark red 

 at base; feet dark green. Length, 160; wing, 99; tail, 66; culmen from 

 base, 16 ; bill from nostril, 12. The specimen described above was taken 

 in Basilan. Male similar? 



"Bill blackish; iris burnt sienna color; orbital ring fine vermilion; 

 feet very dark lead-gray." {Everett.) 



Genus EUDYNAMYS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826. 



Adult male entirely black; adult female conspicuously barred and 

 spotted; feet stout; tail long, its feathers broad and rounded at their 

 tips. 



Species. 

 a>. Plumage black (males). 



1.1 o 11 .^AA 1 fhonorata (p. .S78) 



6*. Smaller; wing, 200 mm. or less ,' ' ' 



(mindanensis (p. 379) 



h'. Larger; wing, 225 mm. or more frater (p. 379) 



a-. Plumage barred ( females ) . 



6*. Smaller; wing, 200 mm. or less. 



&. Bars on abdomen broader honorata (p. 378) 



c^ Bars on abdomen narrower mindanensis i p. 379) 



V. Larger; wing, 225 mm. or more frater (p. 379) 



