428 ON THE LATE COLONEL TICKELL'S [1876. 



terms the Jungle Barbet. Both figures represent X. hcemacephala ; and as Colonel Tickell admits 

 that the Village and the Jungle Barbets " are precisely similar in shape and colour," the object of 

 giving a duplicate figure of the same bird is not obvious. They are, however, stated to differ in 

 liabits and voice ; and the dimensions of the Jungle Barbet, as given, are a trifle greater. This 

 bird, Colonel Tickell states, is only found in deep lofty forests in Tenasserim ; and he syllabicizes 

 the notes of the two birds. 



Phoenicojthaes curvirostris {erythrognathus) is described and figured from individuals met with 

 on the Mooleyit range. In plumage the sexes are stated to be alike ; but while the iris of the 

 male is noted as cobalt-blue, that of the female is stated to be orange. Colonel Tickell remarks 

 that the species feeds on insects, and not on fruits. 



An example of a species of Cenfrqpus obtained at Hazaribagh, Bengal, is figured and 

 described with the scapular interspace of the back coloured like the wings. It probably falls 

 under C. intermedius, Hume. A Darjeeling adult example, and a young bird from Chota 

 Nagpore, of Cuculus micropterus are represented under the title of C. striatus. The plate of 

 Cuculus sparverioidcs contains a figure of a female whose plumage is in the hepatic stage, the 

 tail excepted, which is that of the fully adult bird. 



Together with the adult, Poh/phasia mjtventris, in hepatic barred plumage, is depicted, both 

 from Burmese examples. The latter is described as a separate species under the title of 

 C. castaneus. Colonel Tickell treats P. rujiventris and P. passerinus as being merely varieties of 

 one species, which he identifies witli C. merulinus, Scop, The first he terms the Indo-Chinese 

 variety, the other the Indian variety. 



The plumage, which in the Emerald Cuckoo (C. maculatus) of India and Burma assumes 

 the brilliant green colouring of the adult, is known to be more or less rufous in the young bird. 

 Ibis, 1876, the rufous colouring passing into coppery green before becoming emerald-green. Similar 

 !'■ 3-16 transitions take place in the colouring of the plumage of C. xanthorhynvhus. The barred and 

 rufous stage is succeeded by one in which the rufous colour is replaced by coppery green, which 

 then passes into a darker and purer green, then turns into violet or blue amethystine before 

 finally assuming the amethystine hue of the fully adult plumage. An example of C. xantho- 

 rhynchus, obtained at Rangoon, passing over from the rufous and coppery green stage to the 

 violet and amethystine adult dress, is well figured by Colonel Tickell. He, however, considers 

 that C. viaculatus is in what he terms the "first adult" dress, and that C. waiitliorhyiichus 

 represents the " second adult, or old bird " of the same species — a conclusion which is contrary 

 to tlie known facts. C. xantliorhynchus, a smaller bird than C. maculatus, is a Malayan species 

 which ranges as far north as Hill Tipperah, and occurs in the Andamans. C. viaculatus is an 

 Indian species, and found not uncommonly in Pegu and Siam {C. schomhurgki). In fully adult 

 plumage it has the chin and throat, but not the breast, unbarred emerald-green, like the up[)er 

 plumage. 



To the Texuirostres, as understood by Colonel Tickell, are devoted volume iv., with 

 thirty-two plates. By him this tribe is made to include the Sittid(c, Nectarinikhe, and genera 

 such as Zosterops, lora, Phyllornis, YuMna, Myzornis, Herpornis and Oriolus, Irena and Upupa. 



One of the most finished drawings in the work is that of CertJda discolor, taken from a 

 Darjeeling example. That of Sitta formosa is not so happy, while the characters whereby Sitta 



