CENTROPUS. 383 
346. CENTROPUS SINENSIS (Stephens). 
COMMON COUCAL. 
Polophilus sinensis STEPHENS, Gen. Zool. (1815), 9, 51. 
Centropus sinensis SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 343; 
BLANFORD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 239, fig. 69 (foot) ; 
SHarPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 167; Oates and REID, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1903), 3, 124; McGrrcor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 63. 
Balabac (Everett); Cagayan Sulu (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming); Palawan 
(Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White); Sulu 
(Platen, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Everett). Malay Peninsula, Burmese 
countries, Ceylon, China, India, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
“Adult male-—General plumage black, with the wings and upper back 
chestnut ; head, neck, and chest glossed with purplish blue; remainder of 
the body, lower back, upper tail-coverts, and tail glossed with purplish 
green; primaries with brown ends; inner secondaries slightly tinted with 
brown; under wing-coverts glossy black. ‘Bill and legs black; iris 
crimson.’ (Davison.) Length, 559; culmen, 42; wing, 223; tail, 312; 
tarsus, 58. 
“Adult female—Similar in plumage to the male. Length, 521; 
culmen, 46; wing, 211; tail, 284; tarsus, 56. 
“Immature.—Plumage duller than in the adult and generally of a 
greener shade; sides of head and front of neck with buffy white spots, 
increasing into bars on the body; mantle, some of the wing-coverts, and 
the innermost secondaries barred with black; upper tail-coverts narrowly 
barred with buff; tail glossy greenish black, with no blue shade.” 
(Shelley. ) 
“Rare in Palawan; common in Sulu. Iris red; legs, feet, and nails 
black ; bill black; food insects. ‘Two males measure, 555 in length; wing, 
198; tail, 312; culmen, 41; tarsus, 53; middle toe with claw, 50. Two 
females, length, 475; wing, 178; tail, 245; culmen, 37; tarsus, 44; middle 
toe with claw, 45.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
347. CENTROPUS VIRIDIS (Scopoli). 
RED-WINGED COUCAL. 
Cuculus viridis Scorout, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 89. 
Centropus viridis SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 349; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1900), 2, 167; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 63. 
Suc-suc, Lubang; sa-guc’-soc, Ticao; si-ga-cok’, Calayan; sa-ba-cot’, Manila. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; 
Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; 
Cebu (Meyer, Everett, Steere Bxp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 
(Mearns) ; Fuga (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett, 
Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere 
