416 CUCUUD^E. 



1000. Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus (Horf.\ Sahad, Vcc. 



Born. p. 62 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 80 ; Wardlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 89; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 193 ; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 114, Cuculus xanthorhynchus, Horsf., Trans. Linn* Soc. xiii. p 179, 

 Cuculus malayanus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 286. Chalcococcyx 

 xanthorhynchus, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 191; iii. p 81 ; Hume and Dav., Str. 

 F. vi. pp. 161, 506. Lamprococcyx malayanus, Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. 

 p. 502 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 89. The VIOLET CUCKOO. 



Whole plumage brilliant violet purple, except on the abdomen, vent, tinder 

 tail and under wing coverts, which are barred with white and greenish purple ; 

 outer tail feathers with large white spots on both webs The adult female has 

 the whole lower surface, also the lores, cheeks, ear coverts and sides of the 

 neck white, closely barred with greenish bronze ; head, neck, back, rump and 

 upper tail coverts shining bronze, coppery on the head ; forehead and super- 

 ciliary region speckled with white ; wing coverts bronze, edged with rufous ; 

 also the secondaries and tertiaries; primaries brown, glossed with greenish and 

 edged with rufous, their inner webs with a broad streak of rufous along the 

 basal two-thirds of the edge : centre pair of tail feathers uniform bronze 

 green, tinged with blue near the tip ; the next pair has on each web alternate 

 triangular patches of greenish brown and rufous, these patches becoming 

 less in extent on the lateral feathers, with the tip white ; the outermost 

 feathers are rufous with 4 black bars and a broad white tip. Bill orange 

 yellow in the male ; orange in the female ; irides red ; legs greenish brown. 

 (Oates.) 



Length. 6*5 inches ; tail 3 ; wing 4 ; tarsus O'6 ; bill from gape 0*75. 



Hab. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Phillippine Islands, 

 and Cochin-China. Found in all parts of British Burmah, extending north to 

 Cachar, and the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal and the Andaman Islands. It 

 is found, according to Oates, in dense groves of trees, searching among the 

 leaves for caterpillars. 



1001. Chrysococcyx Limborgi, Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, p. 360 ; 



Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 319; viii. p. 89; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 168; Oates, 

 B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 1 14. The WHITE-COLLARED VIOLET CUCKOO. 



Like C. xanthorhynchusy but with a broad white collar on the upper back 

 reaching to the sides of the neck. (Oates.) Bill yellow ; legs rich green ; 

 irides red. (Limborg.) 



Length. 6'5 to 7 inches ; tail 3-1 ; wing 4 ; tarsus O'$$ ; bill from gape 0'8. 



Hal. Tenasserim. 



Gen. CoCCysteS. Gloger. 



Head crested : nostrils basal, ovate ; 4th quill longest ; 3rd and 4th sub- 

 equal \ tail long, graduated; tarsi not plumed. 



