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1002. Coccystes jaCObiUUS, Bodd., PI. Enl. 872 ; Levail O. A. 

 t. 208 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 137; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, 

 p. 117; Oates, B. Br. Burmah ii. p. 1 18 Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 216; Hume, 

 Str. F. viii. p. 89. Oxylophus jacobinus, Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 81. Coccystes 

 melanoleucos, (Gmel.), Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. ii. p. 694; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. i p. 339, No. 2IO; Murray, Hdblc , ZooL, fyc., Sind, p. 131. Leptoso- 

 mus afer, Frankl., Proc. ZooL Soc. 1831, p. 121. Oxylophus serratus, Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 464. The PIED-CRESTED CUCKOO. 



Entire upper surface black with a greenish gloss ; chin, throat, belly, vent, 

 and under tail coverts white or fulvescent white; bases of the primaries white, 

 forming a conspicuous wing patch ; tail feathers broadly tipped white, the two 

 middle narrowly; shoulders white ; under wing coverts fulvescent white. Bill 

 black ; legs bluish ; irides red brown. 



Length. 13 inches ; wing 5-5 to 575 ; tail 675 to 7 ; bill at front 075. 



Hab. Throughout India to Nepaul. Common in Central and Southern 

 India, Bengal, Upper Pegu and Ceylon, rare on the Malabar Coast. In Sind, 

 Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajputana and North Guzerat, and in fact wherever it is 

 found, it lays according to the breeding season of the various Babblers, in 

 whose nests it deposits its eggs, from January to July. The eggs, like those of 

 the Malacocirci, are a spotless sky blue, and highly glossy, round ovals, varying 

 in length from 0-9 to 0-98 inch, and in breadth from 0*72 to 0*82 inch. 



1003. Coccystes COromanduS (Linn.), Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 341 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. .Z?. p. 138; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 67 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. iii. p. 82 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 81 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 61 ; 

 Legge, B . Ceylon, p. 249 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 162 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. viii. p. 89; Scully, t. c. p. 257. Cuculus coromandus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 171. The RED-WINGED CRESTED CUCKOO. 



Whole head and neck black ; the chin, throat, and foreneck fulvous ; collar 

 round the neck white ; upper parts of the body black, glossed with green ; 

 tail, and lesser wing coverts black, tinged with greenish blue, the tail tipped 

 with fulvous white, increasing in extent towards the outer ^feathers ; primaries, 

 secondaries, and greater wing coverts deep ferruginous or chestnut, the tips 

 dusky ; tertiaries brown ; under surface of the body fulvous white, changing to 

 smoky brown on the vent, and dusky black on the under tail coverts ; under 

 wing coverts pale ferruginous ; flanks greyish brown, with a slight rufescent 

 tinge. Theyoung have the upper parts glossed brown and the feathers are 

 edged with rufous. 



Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; irides red brown. 



Length 13 to 18 inches; tail 10; wing 6-4 ; tarsus ri ; bill from gape r4. 



Hab. Generally spread throughout India, Ceylon, Burmah, and Malay- 

 ana. Recorded from Siam, China, and Cochin China, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 and the Phillippine Islands. Occurs abundantly in Pegu and Tenasserim. it 



