364 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



of wing respectively 8-25 inches and 725 inches, and of tail 

 8*5 inches and 7*5 inches. It is remarkable that various other 

 species of Coel are very locally restricted (but all are within the 

 confines of the great range of distribution mentioned). Thus 

 E. melanorhynchus appears to be confined to Celebes ; and Mr. 

 Wallace gives E, pundatus from Amboyna, My sol, and New 

 Guinea, E. ransomi from Bouru and Ceram, E. picatus from 

 Amboyna and Ternate, and E. facialis from the Sula Islands, 

 midway between Celebes and the IMoluccas. E. taitensis of New 

 Zealand (Ibis, 1862, p. 231) is rather of a difi'erent type, inter- 

 mediate between Eudynamis and Cuculus. It belongs to the 

 Polynesian province of the Australian region, and is noticed 

 from the Fiji Islands in the ' Ornithology of Wilkes's United 

 States' Exploring Expedition' (p. 248 and pi. xxii. f. 2)! I do 

 not think that the birds of this genus are anywhere migratory, 

 or only to a slight extent, if at all so. A pair of the Indian Coel 

 are now living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. 



213. COCCYSTES COROMANDUS. 



The nestling young is figured by Mr. Hodgson, a good deal 

 like that of C. rnelanoleucus, but of course with no white on the 

 tail-feathers. 



215. Zanclostomus tristis. 



Obtained by the late M. Mouhot in Cambogia. The Z. 

 javanicus (Horsf.) [Cuculus erythrorhynchus of the Paris Museum), 

 noticed by Dr. Pucheran (Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 475), was most 

 assuredly never obtained in Bengal, though its range extends to 

 the Southern Tenasserim provinces. 



223. Arachnothera magna. 



Occurs in the Tenasserim provinces (J. A. S. B. xxviii. 

 p. 416), and a beautiful allied species in Pegu, A. aurata, nobis 

 (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478). 



224. Arachnothera pusilla. 



Mr. Wallace has an example of this species from Sumatra ; 

 and I have seen it from Malacca. 



234 and 235. Arachnechthra currucaria (Linn.), and 

 A. LOTENiA (Linn.), Gould, B. As. pt. viii. pis. 



