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and are heard at regular intervals of two or three minutes. I 

 obtained my first specimen at Penang during May ; but its 

 plumage was exactly similar to that of others which I got 

 later in the year at Singapore. On 19th July, 1879, while 

 driving along the Bukit Timah road, I heard one of these 

 Cuckoos in a mangosteen orchard, and soon spied it out, 

 perched among the highest branches of a clump of bamboos ; 

 so, dodging behind the trees, I got within shot and brought 

 it down, a beautiful specimen, J" • 



Length 8j inches ; irides and the inside of the mouth red ; 

 beak dusky, reddish at its base; legs yellow; head, neck, 

 and upper tail-coverts pale ashy, the last approaching the 

 dull brown of the back and wings, which are very faintly 

 glossed with metallic green; underparts bright rufous-brown; 

 tail black, but tipped and narrowly barred withwhite, 



EuDYNAMis MALAYANA, Cab. The Malayan Koel. 



During June 1877 I shot one of these Koels near Kwala 

 Kangsar, Perak ; it was a female, with its ovaries much de- 

 veloped ; its stomach contained several large beans. Length 

 18 inches ; irides crimson-lake; legs plumbeous; beak pale 

 green. 



The male is considerably smaller than the female, and 

 quite unspotted, being entirely of a deep shining blue, with 

 rich purple and green reflections. Late in November 1879 

 I visited Pulo Nongsa, a small island near Singapore, barely 

 half a mile long by sixty or eighty yards in breadth, in fact 

 a mere strip of thick jungle surrounded by a broad coral 

 strand. Hearing most strange mellow notes issuing from the 

 jungle, I sent my Malay boatmen in to beat, and, standing 

 outside on the beach, shot a pair of these Koels as they were 

 driven out into the open. Both were in beautiful plumage, 

 the white markings of the female being exceedingly distinct, 

 and without the slightest sign of the rufous tinge which 

 overspread the above-mentioned Perak specimen ; it was also 

 three inches shorter, and more glossed with green and blue 

 than was that bird. 



