to ' The Birds of India.' 15 



name oi flavus, apud Lesson, but which I see is now considered 

 to be a synonym by Gray. Hodgson also figures the dark stage 

 from the Himalayas. I found this small Cuckoo spread through- 

 out the N.W. Himalayas well into the interior, and to a con- 

 siderable elevation, 9000 feet or so, A nest of Pratincola ferrea 

 was brought me once with three eggs of the usual colour, and 

 one a good deal larger, fleshy white, with numerous reddish 

 spots ; I believe that this was the egg of the Plaintive Cuckoo. 

 One measured in the flesh 9^ inches, wing 4|, extent 14, tail 4f ; 

 the feet were oil-yellow. 



209. POLYPHASIA TENUIROSTRIS, 



As will be seen above, I now think that tenuirostris, Gray, 

 applies to the last bird ; and I know not w^hat name to apply to' 

 the present one, but suggest rufiventris. Godwin-Austen gives 

 the dimensions of the fresh bird as length 9| inches, wing 4j, 

 extent 12^, tail 51. 



212. COCCYSTES MELANOLEUCUS 



should stand as jacobinus, Bodd. This Cuckoo spreads far 

 into the interior of the Himalayas, and is by no means un- 

 common in Kashmir. 



214. Eudynamys orientalis. 



This species, according to an exhaustive paper on the subject 

 by Viscount Walden in * The Ibis,' must stand as Eudynamys 

 honorata, Linnseus^. 



215. Xanclostomus tristis. 



One measured as follows : — Length 24 inches, wing 6|-, ex- 

 tent 19|, tail 17, tarsus 1|, foot 2|. 



217. Centropus RUriPENNIsf. 



Mr. Adams, of the Customs Department, mentioned to me 

 that he had once observed and, I believe, killed an individual of 

 this species dragging along a young Hedgehog {Erinaceus col- 

 laris) by the ear. 



* According to Lord Walden, tlie Nepaulese and North-Indian species 

 will stand as 



214 bis. Eudynamys Malayan a, Cab. 



t I see tliat Swinboe applies the name chinensis, Stephens, to this 

 species. 



