222 cucuLiD^. 



and below and the tail barred with dark brown, but not the quills. 

 This passes into a phase of plumage that is barred throughout 

 rufous and glossy green above, white and green below ; in some 

 male specimens the upper parts are chiefly green, but usually some 

 violet feathers appear. The plumage of the young is never the 

 the same as that of the adult female, but at one stage the two 

 sexes only differ in the barring on the lower parts being broader 

 in males. 



In males the bill is orange-yellow ; iris red ; eyelids green, the 

 edges red ; mouth orange ; legs brownish green ; claws black. In 

 females and young birds only the base of the bill is orange, 

 terminal portion dark brown {Oates). 



Length about 6*5 ; tail 2-8 ; wing 4 ; tarsus '0 ; bill from gape '7b. 



The type of C. limhorgi, now in the British Museum, has 

 Ji broad pure white nuchal collar. It is probably an accidental 

 variety, but may possibly belong to a distinct form. It was 

 obtained at the base of Muleyit, Tenasserim. 



Distribution. Ei'om Dibrugarh in Assam, Cachar and Tipperah, 

 throughout Burma and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Borneo, 

 and Java, but nowhere common. Found also in the Andaman and 

 Nicobar Islands. 



Habits, Sfc. According to Oates this Cuckoo is found in dense 

 groves, and lives mainly on caterpillars ; it is a silent bird and 

 quiet in its movements. Its egg is unknown. 



1116. Chrysococcyx maculatus. The Emerald Cuckoo. 



Trogou maculatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 404 (1788). 



Chrysococcyx lucidus, ajmd Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 917 ; xiii, 



p. 390 ; nee Cuculus lucidus, (j?n. 

 Chrysococcyx smaragdinus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 53 (1846). 

 Chrysococcyx chalcites, ajmd Blyth, Cat. p. 78; nee Cuculus 



chalcites, Illiyer. 

 Chrysococcyx hodgsoni, Moore, Horsf. 4" M. Cat. ii, p. 705 (1856-8) ; 



Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 338; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, 



p. 142 ; Davidson, S. F. x, p. 299. 

 Lamprococcyx maculatus, Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 334 ; Hume ^ Dav. 



S. F. \i, pp. 161, 502 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 581. 

 Chrysococcyx maculatus, Blyth 8)- Wald. Birds Burm. p. 80; 



Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; Wardl. Rarnsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 211 ; id. S. F. ix, p. 248: xi, p. 74 ; Bingham, S. F. 



ix, p. 167 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 113. 

 Cuculus maculatus, Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 



p. 238. 

 Chalcococcyx maculatus, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 291 ; Oates in 



Hume's N. S,- E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 387. 



Ang-pha, Lepcha. 



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

 with all the upper parts glossy green, tinged in parts with bronze; 

 tips of primaries bluish ; quills brown, inner webs with an elongate 

 white patch, forming on all but the first three the basal part oP 

 the inner margin ; outer tail-feathers tipped white, outermost pair 

 with three white bars ; lower breast, abdomen, and wing-lining 



