CACOMANTIS. 413 



lower mandible, gape and base of upper mandible greenish yellow; upper 

 mandible and extreme tip of lower mandible dull black; eyelids, legs, feet 

 and claws orange yellow. (Davison.) 



Length. About n inches; tail 5*5; wing 5-6; tarsus 7*5; bill from gape 

 ri. 



Hal. Tenasserim, in the Southern portion of the division from Bankasoon 

 to Tavoy and Nwalabo mountain. There is no record of its habits, which 

 must be the same as those of other members of the genus. 



995. Hierococcyx nisicolor (Hodgs), Biyth, J. A. S. B. xii. 



p. 943; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 330, No. 206; Hume, Str. F.v. pp. 96, 347; 

 Hume and Damson, Sir. F. vi. p. 157 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 88; Gates, Str. 

 F. x. p. 193; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 109. HODGSON'S HAWK CUCKOO. 



Upper parts, including the wing and their coverts, deep ashy ; the rump and 

 upper tail coverts tipped rather paler ; inner webs of quills barred with white ; 

 tail ashy brown, tipped with rusty, with five narrow black bars (2 concealed), 

 bordered by pale rufous and a broad subterminal black band ; chin, sides of 

 the head and neck like the back ; lores whitish ; throat and foreneck rufous 

 white, streaked with grey ; breast, abdomen and sides of the body bright 

 rufous, the feathers centred with ashy ; vent and under tail coverts white ; bill 

 homy black on upper mandible, pale green on lower ; legs, feet and claws 

 bright yellow ; irides orange red, 



Length. 1 1*5 inches; tail 6 f I ; wing 6*8 ; tarsus O'8 ; bill from gape r2. 



Hab. British Burmah, in Tenasserim, Nepaul, and Malacca. 



Nothing is known in regard to its habits. 



Gen. Cacomantis, Midler. 



Cuckoos of small size and variable plumage, generally grey or dusky ; 

 plumage not barred in the normal adult state ; tarsi less plumed than in 

 Cuculus. 



996- Cacomantis threnodes, Cab. et. Hem. Mus. Hein. iv. 

 p. 19 ; Wald., Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 54; Hume and Dav., Sir. F.vi. p. 158 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 89; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 167 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 391 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 193 ; Oates, B. Br. Burmah. ii. p. m. Polyphasia 

 tenuirostris (Gray\ apud. Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 335. Polyphasia rufiventris, 

 Jerd., Ibis, 1872, p. 15. Caccomantis passerinus (Vahl^) apud. Blyth and 

 Wald., B. Burm. p. 80. Ololygon tenuirostris (Gray), apud. Hume, Str. F. 

 Hi. p. 80. Cacomantis rufiventris, Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 312; Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; Anders., Yunnan Exped. p. 587. Cacomantis 

 tenuirostris, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 62. The RUFOUS-BELLIED CUCKOO. 



Head, neck, and upper breast clear ashy ; back, scapulars, coverts, and wings 

 brown, glossed with green ; a white patch on the inner webs of the quills ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts cfark ashy, most of the feathers tipped paler ; tail 



