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(2) Upper plumage glossy green; naked skin of 
face red. 
Phenicophes pyrrhocephalus(Red-faced Malkoha). 
(3) Plumage sandy brown ; back and breast feathers 
spiny. 
Taccocua leschenaulti (The Sirkeer Cuckoo). 
If.—Plumage black ; wings chestnut. Genus Centropus. 
(a) Wing lining black. 
(1) Bill black. 
C. sinensis (Common. Coucal). 
(2) Bill green. 
C. chlororhynchus (Ceylonese Coucal). 
(6) Wing lining chestnut. 
C. bengalensis (Lesser Coucal). 
EUDYNAMIS HONORATA (Blanford, Vol. ITT., p. 228 ; 
Legge, p. 251). 
The Indian Koel. 
Description.—Male : Black all over with a bluish-green gloss. 
Female: Upper plumage brown with an olive gloss; the 
head, black, and wing coverts speckled, and the wing and 
tail quills barred with white ; throat and fore-neck brown 
with white streaks, which change to wavy crossbars on the 
rest of the lower parts. 
Young birds at first are black like the males, then become 
barred and spotted like the females, only the spots and bars 
on the upper plumage are rufous. Males then gradually 
assume their adult plumage, and females their adult markings. 
Bill dull green ; iris crimson ; legs plumbeous. 
Length about 16; wing 7°5; tail about 7°5; tarsus 1°2 ; 
bill from gape 1°5. 
Distribution Common all over the low-country, but 
rather more local in the north than in the south. It appears 
to wander about to some extent, but does not ascend the hills 
to any great height. It occurs practically all over India, 
except on the higher slopes of the Himalayas, and ranges 
through Burma to China and the Malay Archipelago. 
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