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C. maculatus, Bodd. ex Buff. PI. Enl. 704 (1783). 



C. orientalis, L., var. /3, Gm., ex Buff. (Montb.) /. c. p. 383, no. 2, Mindanao, d adult. 



E. chinensis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 52, note, " Canton," ? 6 . 



E. orientalis (L.), Swinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 46. 



Ilah. China. Ins. Philipp. 



These titles are thrown together as synonyms of the Linnaean species, on the presumption, 

 first, that the Chinese and Philippine species are one and the same, and, secondly, that they 

 specifically differ from E. honorata (L.). Upon this last point I am not quite determined ; but, 

 judging from Buffon's 764th plate and Montbeillard's and Sonnerat's description, I believe them 

 to be distinct. I have failed in seeing specimens of the female or young male. An adult 

 Philippine male exists in Mr. Gould's collection, which possesses a stout bill, stouter than in 

 E. malaijana, from Tenasserim, and deeper than in E. honorata. Should it prove a distinct form, 

 we shall have the following not improbable distribution of the three species: — E. honorata to 

 the west, E. mindanensis to the east of the hill-ranges which descend from Assam southward 

 through the Malay Peninsula ; and E. malayana originating in the central Himalaya, inhabiting 

 the slopes of the descending range, and extending at least all over Sumatra. 



4. EuDTNAMis CTANOCEPHALA (Lath.), Ind. Orn. Supp. p. XXX. no. 3 (1801), ex Lath., Syn. ibis, 1S69, 

 Supp. ii. pp. 137, no. 8, "New Holland," ? adult vel 6 adolesc. P- ^-ll- 



E.flindersi (Lath.), Vigors & Horsf., Linn. Tr. xv. p. 305 (1828), ex Lath., Gen. Hist. iii. 

 p. 308, no. 63, " North Coast of New Holland," 2 vel 6 adolesc. 



E. orientalis (L.), Vigors & Horsf. t. c. p. 304, " New Holland," 6 adolesc. 



E. australis, Swains., An. in Menag. p. 344, no. 189, " Australia, 6 adult. 



Hab. New South Wales, Queensland, West Australia ( Gould). 



Latham's " Blue-headed Cuckoo " must certainly have been a Eudynamis ; and as only one 

 species is known to exist in Australia, I give the title founded on it precedence over his subsequent 

 designation bestowed on a specimen obtained on the north coast by Captain Flinders, the type of 

 which still exists in the British Museum. 



A specimen of an adult male from Queensland in my collection possesses one bright rufous 

 secondary quill, as observed by Mr. Vigors in Mr. Caley's example ; only my specimen is other- 

 wise in full black livery. 



The difference between the plumage of the female and young of the Australian and Indian 

 birds {E. honorata) is very striking. The female of the Indian species never has the black head 

 and nape, the broad dark bands from the angles of the mouth, and the pale and almost 

 immaculate fulvous breast we find in the Australian Koel. In other respects the markings, in 

 shape, colour, and combination, are perfectly different. The type specimen of E. Jlindersi 

 displays so anomalous a phase of colouring that I venture to surmise that it belongs to a second 

 Australian species. 



5. Eudynamis orientalis (L.), ex Briss. iv. p. 140. no. 18, "Ind. Orient." <3 adult. 



C. puncfatus, L., ex Briss. t. c. p. 134, no. 14, " Ind. Orient." 2 vel d adolesc. 



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