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); 

 SHAEPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 167; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1903), 3, 124; MCGREGOR 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; tall, 245; culmen, 37; tarsus, 44; middle 

 toe with claw, 45." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



347. CENTROPUS VIRIDIS (Scopoli). 

 RED-WINGED COUCAL. 



Cuculus viridis SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 89. 

 Centropus viridis SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1391), 19, 349; SHARPE, 



Hand-List (1900), 2, 167; McGBEGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 63. 



Suc-suc, Lubang; sa-guc'-soc, Ticao; si-ga-cok', Calayan; sa-ba-cot', Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Banton (Gelestino) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & 

 Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); 

 Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); 

 Cebu (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 

 (M earns); Fuga (McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett, 

 Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere 



