CHRYSOCOCCYX. 415 



Upper parts glossy black, glossed green and blue ; head subcrested ; a few 

 white feathers on the nape ; tail glossy- blue black, the outermost pair of 

 feathers barred and tipped with white ; the next pair with only a few white 

 spots near the shaft and very narrowly tipped with white ; primaries black ; 

 all except the second with a white spot on the inner web ; tibial plumes spotted 

 with white ; upper tail coverts with some white specks occasionally ; lower 

 surface of the body dull black ; inner wing coverts the same, with minute white 

 specks. The young are black, and the plumage above and below is much 

 spotted with white. Bill black ; irides brown ; legs plumbeous. 



Length. 10 inches; tail 5-3 to 5*75; wing 5-5; tarsus O 6$ ; bill from 

 gape r i. 



Hab. The Indo-Burmese countries, India generally, and Ceylon. Ranges 

 into China, Siam and Cochin-China, and extends down the Malay Peninsula, 

 to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.. It is common on the Malabar Coast, in the 

 Wynaad, Central India, and at Darjeeling. In the Himalayas, Ceylon, 

 Burmah, and Tenasserim, it is said to be not uncommon. Gates says it is 

 found over the whole of British Burmah and Karenne- 



Gen. ChrySOCOCCyX. Boie. 



Bill as in Cuculus, but a little more depressed at the base and entire at tip ; 

 wings pointed; 2nd quill longer than the 4th ; 3rd subequal with the 4th; 

 feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts soft ; tarsi short, feathered. 



999. Chrysococcyx maculatus (Gm.), Blyth, B. iturm.p. So; 



Wald., Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; Wardlaw- Ramsay, 7^,1877, p. 438; Hume, Str. 

 F. viii. p. 89 ; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p. 167 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 193 ; id., B. 

 Br. Burn. ii. p. 113. Trogon maculatus, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 404; Legge, 

 B. Ceylon, p. 238. Chrysococcyx smaragdinus, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xv. p. 53. 

 Chrysococcyx Hodgsoni, Moore, in Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds, Mus. E. 

 I. Co. ii. p. 705 ; Jerd n B. Ind, i. p. 338, No. 21 1 ; David' et Oust. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 62. Chrysococcyx Schomburgki, Gould, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 73. 

 Lamprococcyx maculatus, Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. pp. 161, 502. The 

 EMERALD CUCKOO. 



Head, neck, and entire upper plumage, including the wings and tail, also the 

 breast, emerald green, with a golden gloss; inner webs of quills marked with 

 white, and the outer tail feathers with large white spots ; lower breast and rest 

 of the lower plumage white, crossed with bars of shining or metallic green. 

 Bill yellow, tipped dusky or black ; legs and feet brownish green ; irides red 

 brown. The young are variously marked ; generally the forehead, crown, and 

 nape are rufous, or barred with rufous. 



Length. 7 inches ; tail 3 ; wing 4-4; tarsus 0'5 ; bill from gape 0-85. 



Hab. The Himalayas to Ceylon. Found in the greater portion of 

 Burmah and Tenasserim ; also Arracan. Jerdon says it has been procured at 

 Darjeeling and also in Central India. 

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