( 5b) 
black with white bands and tips; the remaining underpart are light 
ashy in colour. 
(210) SURNICULUS DICRUROIDES, Drongo or Fork-tailed Cuckoo, is 
rare and only occasionally met with in Darjeeling. It is Drongo- 
like in appearance, and habits not a little. Plumage is black, with 
a bluish green gloss; some white on its wings and tail-coverts. Its 
call has the metallic Dicrurus sound. 
(211) Curysococcyx Hopesont, Himerald Cuckoo. This is a 
beautiful little cuckoo, clothed, above in brilliant emerald-green with 
a rich golden gloss; beneath cross-barred with shining green. It is 
about 65 inches in length. It arrives in Darjeeling early in spring, 
just when the trees have adorned their emerald-green attire. So 
that Chrysococcyx is scarcely distinguishable from the foliage, as it 
sits peacefully in a secluded corner of one or other of the tall bushy 
trees about the place. Its clear musical whistle is about three notes 
uttered, alone betrays its presence. 
(214) EUDYNAMYS ORIENTALIS, Jndian Koel, is found in the 
plains, where its clear melodious voice is heard in hot balmy days 
in early spring. As the sweltering heat of summer advances, its 
call becomes more noisy and persistant, “/wil, kuil,” not unlike its 
name. This species is 174 inches in length; male is glossy greenish 
black; female more dusky-greenish with white spots, above, bands 
of white on the tail and wings; beneath white, spotted and streaked 
with black. 
Susp-Famity PHASNICOPHAIN (Malkohas) 
GENUS ZANCLOSTOMUS 
Bill, compressed and well curved; wings short and rounded, 4th, 
5th and 6th quills the longest; tail long and graduated; tarsus 
longish ; hind toe short; claws curved and sharp. 
(215) ZANCLOsStomMus, TRISTIS, Large Green-billed Malkoha, is in 
appearance not unlike a smallish pheasant, about 23 inches in length ; 
plumage is dark, greenish grey; wings and tail glossy dark green, 
the latter feathers tipped white; bill light green; crimson papillose 
skin round the eyes, surrounded by longish hair-like, bristly feather 
shatts. MJalkohas have bright coloured bills and conspicuously mark- 
ed bare skin round the-orbits, blue, green, and crimson, as the case 
