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the tail is short and slightly rounded, the wings long and pointed, 

 the primaries exceeding the secondaries by more than one-third 

 the length of the closed wing. The tarsus is feathered almost 

 throughout. 



In the British Museum Catalogue the African forms are placed 

 in a separate genus, but I do not think them entitled to distinction. 

 The genus in the sense here accepted inhabits the Ethiopian, 

 Oriental, and Australian regions and extends to New Zealand. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper parts green C. maculatus, S ad., p. 222. 



Upper parts violet C. xanthorhynchtis, c? ad., p. 221. 



Upper parts coppery bronze C. macidativi, $ & juv., p. 222. 



Head above light rufous, mantle green. C xanthorhynchus, § &juv., 



[p. 221 



1115. Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchns. The Violet Cuckoo. 



Cuculus xanthorhynchns, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p, 170 



(1821) ; Walclen, Ibis, 1876, p. .346. 

 Chrysococcvx xanthorhynchus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 919; id. 



Cat. p. 73; Horsf. '^ M. Cat. ii, p. 706; Walden, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 137 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 155 ; Bhjth, Birds 



Burm. p. 80; Wardl. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458; Hume, Cat. 



no. 211 bis ; id. S. F. ix, p. 248 ; xi, p. 75 ; Gates, S. F. x, p. 193; 



id. B. B. ii, p. 114; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, 



p. 432. 

 Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, p. 15 ; 



Hume, S. F. ii, p. 191 ; iii, p. 81 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, 



pp. 161, 506 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 289. 

 Chrysococcyx limborgi, Tweeddale, F. Z. S. 1877, p. 366 ; id. S. F. 



vii, p. 319 ; Hume, Cat. no. 211 quat. ; Binyham, S. F. ix, p. 168 ; 



Gates, B. B. ii, p. 116. 

 Lamprococcyx malayanus, Hume ^- Dav. S. F. vi, p. 503. 

 Chrysococcyx malayanus, Hume, Cat. no. 211 ter ; id. S. F. xi, 



p. 76. 



Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round and upper breast 

 with all the upper parts glossy violet ; quills blackish brown ; outer 

 tail-feathers tipped white and the outermost pair with about three 

 interrupted white bars ; lower breast, abdomen, wing-lining, and 

 under tail-coverts marked with alternating broad cross-bars of 

 white and violet or green. 



Female. Above greenish bronze with a coppery tinge, a little 

 white on the forehead; tips of wing and tail-feathers greener; 

 quills brown, their inner edges chestnut except near the tips ; all 

 tail-feathers except the middle pair banded green and chestnut 

 and tipped white, on the outer pair the chestnut on the outer 

 web is replaced by white ; lower parts with sides of the head and 

 neck alternately banded white and bronze-green, the bands wider 

 behind. 



The nestling is rufous except on the breast and abdomen ; the 

 head and neck with broad dusky longitudinal streaks ; body above 



