■228 cucuLiD^. 



a^. Bill red throughout ; general colour 



ahove grey Zanclostomits, p. 230. 



b^. Bill partly or wholly green. 



«*. Culmen much curved throughout: 

 sexes alike in plumage. 

 a\ Tail-feathers with white tips. 

 a^. Naked sides of face not united 



across forehead Rhopobytes, p. 230. 



Z»^. Naked sides of face united .. Phcenicophaes,p.234. 



¥. No white on tail-feathers Rhamphococcyx, 



6*. Culmen almost straight except at [p. 235. 



tip : sexes dissimilar Rhixortha, p. 236. 



b". Breast and back-feathers spiny, colour 



brownish Taccocua, p. 237. 



b'. Claw of hallux much lengthened and 



nearly straight Centropus, p. 239. 



Genus EUDYNAMIS, Vig. & Horsf., 1826. 



Sexes dissimilar ; the adult male being black, the adult female 

 spotted or barred. The changes in the young are peculiar, the 

 nestling, in the only species in which the various phases have been 

 studied, having the coloration of the adult male, then changing 

 into a garb resembling that of the female. 



The bill is stout, the culmen rounded and much curved ; the 

 wing and tail subequal in length, the latter moderately graduated, 

 the rectrices broad. No crest. Legs stout ; tarsus strongly 

 scutellate in front, only plumed at the extreme base. 



The genus ranges throughout the Oriental region to New 

 Guinea and Australia. About six species are known, only one of 

 which inhabits India. 



1120. Eudynamis honorata. T7ie Indian Koel. 



Cuculus honoratus, Li7in. Syst. Nat. i, p. 169 (1766). 



Cuculus orientalis, apnd Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xi, p. 913, nee Linn. 



Eudynamis orientalis, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 222 ; Pearson, 

 J. A. S. S. X, p. 657 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 245 ; xvi, p. 468 ; 

 id. Cat. p. 73 ; Horsf. 8r M. Cat. ii, p. 707 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 342 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 363 ; A. Anderson, Ibis. 1873, p. 74. 



Eudynamis honorata, Walden, Ibv^, 1869, p. 338; Hume, N. ^ E. 

 p. 139; id. S. F. i, p. 173; Adam, ibid. p. 373; A. Anderson, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 142; Hume, 8. F. iv, p. 463; Butler, 8. F. vii, 

 p. 182 ; Ball, ibid. p. 207; Hume, Cat. no. 214; 8cully, 8. F. viii, 

 p. 257 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 251 ; Beid, 8. F. x, p. 27 ; Barnes, 

 Birds Bom. p. 130 ; Oates in Hume's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 392 ; 

 8helley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 316. 



Eudynamis malayana. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, p. 52 (1862) ; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 339 ; Hume, 8. F. ii, p. 192 ; xi, p. 77 ; id. 

 Cat. no. 214 bis ; Hume 8f Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 162 ; Oates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 119; 8alvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 581 ; v, p. 569. 



Eudvnamis chinensis, Cab. Sf Hein, I. c. note ; Blyth, Birds Burm. 

 p."81. 



Koel, H. ; Kokil, Beng. ; Kokila, Nallak S , Podak $ , Tel. ; Kusil, 

 Koel, Tamul (Ceylon) ; Kaputa Koha cj , Gomera Koha § , Cing. ; Ou-au, 

 Burmese. 



