Key to the Species. 
A. Tail banded throughout on the central rectrices with 
alternate black and rufous se Pa M. tusalia. 
B. Tail plain brown with no bands : 
a’. Wing exceeding 7 in. oes ai Be .. MM. rufipennis. 
b’. Wing under 6.5in. ... i = ne ee M. ruficeps. 
(48) MACROPYGIA TUSALIA (Hodg.). 
THE BAR-TAILED CUCKOO-DOVE. 
(PLATE 24.) 
Coccyzura tusalia Hodg., J.A.S.B., XII p. 937 (1843). 
Macropygia leptogrammica Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 809; id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., 
p. 235; Oates, B. of Brit. Burma, II p. 295. 
Macropygia tusalia Blyth, J.A.S.B., XII p. 936; Jerdon, B.I., III p. 473; 
Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XX XIX pt. 2, p. 112; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 
p. 500 ; Wald., in Blyth’s B. Burma, p. 146; Hume and Dav., Str. Feath, 
VI p.419; Hume, ib., VIIL p. 110; id., Cat. no. 791; id., Str. Feath., XI 
p. 297; Oates, in Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 362; Salvadori, 
Cat. B.M., XXI p. 338; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 49; Sharpe, Hand- 
List, I p. 73; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M.,1I p. 91; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.HLS., 
X p. 361; Osmaston, ib., XV p. 515; Stuart Baker, ib., XVII p. 971; 
Mears, ib., XVIII p. 86; J. P. Cook, ib., XXI p. 675; Venning, ib., 
p- 632; Robinson, ib., p. 261; Harington, B. Burma, p. 69; Robinson, 
J.F.M.S. 1905, p. 54. 
Vernacular Names. Twusal, Nepalese; Ka-er, Lepcha; Daotukunt- 
laima, Cachari. 
Description.—Adult male. Fore-head, lores, cheeks, chin, and throat 
buff, faintly tinged with lilac; crown, hind-neck, and sides of neck behind 
the ear-coverts metallic lilac-purple, this colour not contrasting with, but 
changing gradually from, the buff of the face; rest of upper-surface from 
the back to the tail barred black and rufous, the black bars being boldest 
on the upper tail-coverts and most narrow on the upper-back and shoulders 
where they are overlaid with a beautiful green, purple, or copper-sheen, all 
these tints being visible in certain lights and varyingly dominant in others. 
Tail dark brownish-black, narrowly barred with rufous, the rufous disappearing 
on the outermost rectrices, which are dark grey with a broad band of black 
about one-third of their length from the tip; the intermediate feathers are 
