130. CUCULINE. - 
They are deep sky-blue in color, and measure 0-94 inches 
in léngth by 0°73 in breadth. 
Coccystes. coromandus, tie 
213, —Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 841; Butler, Deccan ;> 
: Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 389. his 
THE RED-WINGED CRESTED CUCKOO. 
Length, 145 to 155; expanse, 18 to 19; wing, 6:25 to 6:5; 
tail, 8°5 to 9°8; tarsus; 08 to 1:08; bill at front, 1; bill from 
gape, 1°3. 
Bill black; inside of mouth fleshy; irides hazel to red- 
brown ; feet leaden or plumbeous. 
Upper parts with the tertiaries black, glossed with green, 
paler on the tertiaries, and less glossed on the head; a con- 
spicuous half collar of white encircles the nape ; wings deep 
ferruginous, with the tips of the primaries and secondaries 
dusky; under parts white, a little tinged with fulvous, except 
the lower tail-coverts, which are green-black, and the throat 
and foreneck, which are en ochreous fulvous in some; erst) 
others, light fulvous. 
Mr. Vidal obtained a specimen at Savantwadi; this is the 
only recorded instance of its occurrence within our limits. 
Genus, Eudynamis, Vig. & Horsf. 
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 fourth 
quill longest ; tail lengthened, rounded ; rump and upper tail- 
feathers “soft ; tarsus” strong, not feathered below’ the joint, 
flattened in front, 
-Eudynamis honorata, Lin. 
214.—Hudynamis orientalis, Lin—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 342; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 461; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 889; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 117; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
~ Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 63. 
THE. INDIAN Kor... THE BLack Cuckoo. 
Koel, Hin. 
3. Length, 15°5; expanse, 23; wing, 75; tail, 7:5; tarsus,’ 
1:12; bill at front, 1. 
?. Length, 17:5; wing, 8; tail, 8. 
Bill pale greenish; inside of mouth reddish ; irides crimson ; 
legs slaty-blue. 
Male, glossy greenish-black throughout. 
Female, glossy dusky-green, spotted with white above ; wings 
and tail banded w hite; beneath white, with black spots, longi- 
tudinal on the throat and neck, somewhat heart-shaped 
