376 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
338. CHALCOCOCCYX XANTHORHYNCHUS (Horsfield). 
VIOLET CUCKOO. 
Cuculus xcanthorhynchus Horsr ii, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1821), 13, pt. 1, 179. 
Chalcococcyx ranthorhynchus SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 
289; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 161; McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. 
(1906), 1, 905; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 62. 
Lampromorpha amethystina Vicors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 98. 
Basilan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester) ; Luzon (Lindsay) ; Mindoro 
(Steere Exp., McGregor, Porter); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Wor- 
cester); Samar (Whitehead). Nicobars, Andamans, Malay Peninsula, Indo- 
Chinese Provinces, Assam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Male.—Entire head, neck, wings, tail, chin, throat, and fore breast 
beautiful metallic violet ; three outer pairs of rectrices tipped with white ; 
outermost pair with three white spots on outer webs; under parts, wing- 
Jining, and axillars white, barred with metallic green. A male from 
Mindoro had inner ring of iris dark red, outer ring yellow; eyelids 
scarlet ; bill bright yellow, its basal third orange-red ; legs and nails black. 
Length, 165; wing, 103; tail, 68; culmen from base, 19; A male 
from Palawan measures: Wing, 91; tail, 65; culmen from base, 17. 
“Adult female-——Above coppery bronze shaded with green, and with 
somewhat obscure rufous edges to most of the feathers of the wing; 
sides of the head and eyebrows white, barred with black; forehead par- 
tially mottled with these colors; remainder of the crown and back of 
the neck nearly uniform dark brown; center pair of tail-feathers nearly 
uniform fiery bronze, passing into green toward their ends; remainder 
of the feathers rufous, barred with black, and the outer web and tip of 
the exterior pair blotched with white; under parts, including the under 
wing-coverts, white, regularly barred with bronzy brown, passing into 
black on the under tail-coverts; under surface of the quills brown, with 
broad inner margins of buff, passing into white near the base of the 
feathers. Length, 168; culmen, 16; wing, 99; tail, 71; tarsus, 14. 
“Young.—Above rufous; back of the neck, back, and wing-coverts 
barred with metallic green; quills greenish brown, edged with rufous; 
two center tail-feathers metallic green, tipped with rufous, remainder 
rufous, barred with black and tipped with white and with some white 
bars on the outer feathers; beneath white, barred with bronze. Bill 
yellowish brown. Length, 142. Males on first assuming the metallic 
plumage are irregularly blotched with both metallic green and violet.” 
(Shelley. ) 
“A very rare bird. Iris red; legs and feet dark olive; nails black; 
bill orange-yellow, red at base; eye-wattles red. Food, in one case, 
caterpillars. A male measures, 203 in length; wing, 96; tail, 66; culmen, 
18; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 19. (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
It is not improbable that Vigors’s name will have to be used for 
