EUDYNAMYS. Ob 
the violet cuckoo inhabiting the Philippine Islands, outside the Palawan 
group; at the present time, however, sufficient material to warrant the 
separation is not available. 
339. CHALCOCOCCYX MALAYANUS (Raffles). 
EMERALD CUCKOO, 
Cuculus malayanus RAFFLES, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 286. 
Chalcococcyx malayanus SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 298; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 162; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 62. 
Basilan (McGregor); Bongao (Hverett); Mindanao (Hverett, Celestino) ; 
Negros (Steere) ; Tawi Tawi (Everett). Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 
Timor, Flores, Celebes, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, northern Australia. 
Adult female——Above including wing and tail dark metallic bronze- 
green, mixed with dark purple, the latter color more pronounced on 
head and neck; some small white spots on lores and above and below eyes ; 
below white, barred with coppery bronze; throat, fore breast, and sides 
of neck heavily washed with rich rusty brown which nearly obliterates 
the white and bronze bars; under wing-coverts and axillars barred with 
white and bronze; under surface of wing ashy brown; on inner web near 
the base of each quill a white patch, followed by a larger rufous patch 
forming a diagonal double band; rectrices rufous, outermost pair barred 
with black and white and with white tips; next two pairs barred with 
black and with white tips; fourth pair ashy brown, barred with rufous 
en outer webs and with tips subterminally blackish; middle pair ashy 
brown with obsolete subterminal bars. Iris red; bill black, dark red 
at base; feet dark green. Length, 160; wing, 99; tail, 66; culmen from 
base, 16; bill from nostril, 12. The specimen described above was taken 
in Basilan. Male similar? 
“Bill blackish; iris burnt sienna color; orbital ring fine vermilion; 
feet very dark lead-gray.” (Hverett.) 
* Genus HUDYNAMYS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826. 
Adult male entirely black; adult female conspicuously barred and 
spotted; feet stout; tail long, its feathers broad and rounded at their 
tips. 
Species. 
a, Plumage black (males). 
(honorata (p. 378) 
| mindanensis (p. 379) 
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a*, Plumage barred (females). 
* bt. Smaller; wing, 200 mm. or less. 
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