342 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



]\Ialayan peninsula. 1 have seen it in Malabar and the Carnatic, 

 and it is also found in Central India, and not very uncommonly in 

 Benoal; in the latter country only during the rains. I obtained 

 it in Sikhim in tlie warmer valleys. I do not know its call, nor 

 if it has any peculiarity of lial)it. 



Besides the C. glandarius, already alluded to, there are two 

 other species, both of them African, and one of them was lon^ 

 confounded with our Indian bird, C. serratus; the other, C.aJ'er. 



The next forms a group by itself, distinguished among other 

 ])oInts by its thick green bill, by the sexes differing in colour, 

 and by their frugivorous diet. 



Gen. EuDYNAMYS, Vigors and Horsf. 



Char. — Bill strong, thick, vertically deep, much curved at tip, 

 and hooked ; the lower mandible nearly straight ; gonys slightly 

 undulated upwards ; nostrils long, oval ; wings, with the 4th quill 

 longest ; tail lengthened, rounded ; rump and upper tail-feathers 

 soft; tarsus strong, not feathered below the joint, flattened 

 in front. 



This genus includes several nearly allied species from India, 

 Malayans, and Australia, and is indeed mostly oceanic. Tlie male, 

 which is generally the smaller bird, is black, and the female more 

 or less spotted with white. They are the most frugivorous of all 

 the Cuculince. 



214. Eudynamys orientalis, Lm. 



Cuculus, apud LiNN.— PI. Enl 273, f. 1— Jeudon, Cat. 228 — 

 Blyth, Cat. 358— HoRSF., Cat. 1034— Sykks, Cat. 127— C. niger, 

 Mindanensis, and scolopaceus L. — C. maculatus, Gmelin (the 

 female) — Koel H., the female sometimes called koreyala, i. e. tiie 

 ' spotted' Kokil, Beng. — Kokila, Tel., the male being called 

 Nulled:.,' and the female Podak. 



Tnii Indian Koel. 



Descr. — Male, glossy greenish black throughout. 



Bill pale greenish ; inside of the mouth reddish ; irides line 

 crimson ; legs slaty blue. Lengtli 15^ inches ; extent 23 ; wing 7^ ; 

 tail 7^ ; bill at front 1; tarsus 1^. 



