256 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
White-throated Babbler (D. albogularis) and the Common 
Bush Bulbul (4. tiphia). An egg taken from the oviduct 
is described as brownish-pink, speckled and freckled with 
reddish-brown. ‘The size is about -76 by °63; the shape a 
broad blunt oval, slightly pointed at one end. The texture is 
smooth and fine and somewhat glossy. 
Curysococcyx MACULATUS (Blanford, Vol. III., p. 222). 
CucULUS MACULATUS (Legge, p. 238). 
The Emerald Cuckoo. 
Description —Adult Male : Head, neck, upper breast, and 
upper parts glossy green tinged with bronze ; wing quills brown ; 
a white patch on the basal portion of the inner webs of most 
of the primaries ; outer tail feathers tipped with white, the 
outermost pair with three white bars; lower breast, wing 
lining, and abdomen banded with white and metallic green or 
bronze ; under tail coverts green with narrow white bars. 
Females and Immature Males: Crown and back of neck 
pale rufous, generally barred with white and dark brown ; 
back, wings, and tail metallic green tinged with yellow or 
coppery bronze ; wing quills brown with rufous patches on 
the inner webs; central tail feathers tipped with coppery 
bronze ; outer feathers barred with chestnut and black and 
tipped with white ; under surface barred white and copper. 
Bill orange-yellow, black at the tip; iris red-brown ; legs 
and feet reddish-brown. 
Length 7; wing 4°4; tail 2:9; tarsus ‘6; bill from gape 
85. 
Distribution.—The specimen figured in Brown’s “* Illustra- 
tion of Indian Zoology, 1776,” is said to have been obtained 
in Ceylon by the Dutch Governor Loten. As the bird has 
never been seen in the Island since, its place in the Ceylon list 
isa little doubtful. It occurs in the Lower Himalayas and 
the Assamese hills, and ranges eastward through Burma and 
Malaya to Sumatra. It is nowhere common. 
Habits, &¢—This species keeps to the tops of trees in forest. 
It feeds entirely on insects. 
