RHOPODYTES, /(.]y 



Gen. Rhinortlia. - Vigors, 



Bill much compressed, curved both at the culmen and lower mandible; 

 wings short and rounded ; tail lengthened, graduated. 



1006. Rhinortha chlorophsea (Raffles), Biyth, B. Burm. p. 82 ; 



Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 166; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 89; Oates, B. 

 Br. Burmah ii. p. 120. Cuculus chlorophaeus, Raffles, Trans, Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. p. 288. Rhynortha chlorophasa, Salvad, Ucc. Born, p, 69. The SMALL 

 GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA. 



Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck, back and wings chest- 

 nut, deeper on the wings, the quills of which are tipped dusky ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts smoky brown, or blackish, tipped with white, the whole 

 surface, except near the white tips, closely barred with yellowish brown ; 

 cheeks, chin, throat and breast pale chestnut or buff, passing to dusky on the 

 lower breast ; remainder of the lower plumage smoky grey, obsoletely barred 

 darker ; under wing coverts chestnut. The female has the forehead, crown, 

 nape, sides of the head and neck, grey ; the remainder of the upper 

 plumage, bright chestnut, the quills tipped dusky, the tail tipped white, with a 

 subterminal black bar ; chin, throat, and upper breast grey, paler than the 

 head, and in some birds tinged with fulvous ; lower breast fulvous, deepening 

 on the abdomen and sides of the body ; vent and under tail coverts dull chest- 

 nut ; under wing coverts chestnut, (pates.) Legs and feet dark plumbeous ; 

 claws black ; bill apple-green ; orbital skin pale green inclining to bluish ; 

 irides dark brown. (Davison.) 



Length. 13 inches ; tail 7 ; wing 4-5 ; tarsus IT ; bill from gape 1*4. The 

 female is of the same size. 



Eab. Malay Peninsula, to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. In Tenasserim it is 

 found as far north as Lemyne, a village about a day's march of Yea. Accord- 

 ing to Davison it frequents the densest parts of the evergreen forests and cane 

 brakes and densest of scrub jungle. In all its habits it resembles Rhopodytes, 

 but has quite a different note from it. 



Gen. Rhopodytes. Cab. et Hein. 



Bill much compressed throughout and curved ; nostrils basal, pierced in 

 a slight depression in the horny substance ; wing short, rounded, with the 

 4th, 5th, and 6th quills nearly equal and longest ; tail much lengthened, 

 graduated ; hallux short ; claws sharp. 



1007. Rhopodytes tristiS (Lesson), Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 312 ; 



Hume and Dav., S/r. F. vi. p. 162 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 89 ; Bingham, 

 Str. F. ix. p. 168 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 190; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 121. 

 Melias tristis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 132 ; id., Voy. B clang, p. 231 ; Ois. pi. i. 

 Zanclostomus tristis, Jerd., B. Tnd. i. p. 345 ; Hume } Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 



