422 CUCULID^E. 



Top and sides of the head, nape, a mandibular stripe, and point of the chin 

 ashy grey; back,, scapulars, greater, median and lesser wing coverts, also the 

 primaries and secondaries metallic green, the primaries with a bluish tinge ; 

 sides of the neck and breast chestnut, changing gradually to smoky or dusky 

 black towards the vent ; thighs smoky black ; under tail-coverts dull ferru- 

 ginous ; under wing coverts greenish ; tail metallic green, the terminal third 

 deep ferruginous. " Bill with the upper mandible pale green above and dark 

 maroon red at base below the nostril ; lower mandible to gonys, dark maroon 

 red, the fore part dark greenish ; legs and feet dark plumbeous ; nude facial 

 skin red. Irides bluish, yellow in the female." (Davison.) 



Length. 19 inches; tail IO'5 ; wing 6'8; tarsus 1-65 ; bill from gape, r8. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, and British Burmah. 

 Davison found it in Tenasserim, where he says it frequents open forests, 

 gardens, and thick secondary scrub. 



Gen. ZanclostomUS- Swains. 



Bill much compressed throughout, culmen curved, wings short and round- 

 ed ; tail lengthened. 



1012. Zanclostomus javaniCUS (Horsf.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. 

 p. 75 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 81 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 167 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. viii. p. 89. Phcenicophaus javanicus, Horsf., Trans., Linn. Soc. t 

 xiii. p. 178. The LESSER RED-BILLED MALKOHA. 



Top and sides of the neck ashy grey, tinged with fulvescent on the fore- 

 head ; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, foreneck, and breast chestnut, deeper chestnut 

 on the vent and under tail-coverts ; back, scapulars, wings and their coverts, 

 and tail metallic green, tinged with blue, the tail feathers tipped white ; abdomen 

 grey, with a fulvescent tinge ; flanks and under wing coverts ashy grey. 



Bill coral red ; facial skin blue ; irides brown ; legs and feet plumbeous. 



Length. 18 inches; tail II ; wing 5-8; tarsus 1*3 ; bill from gape 1-5. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo ; also Tenasserim from 

 Tavoy southwards. Nothing is known of its habits. 



Sub-Family CENTROPODIN^E, Bp. COUCALS or CROW 



PHEASANTS. 



Bill strong, deep, compressed ; wings rounded ; tail long, graduated ; tarsi 

 long and scaled ; hallux lengthened in some. 



Gen. Centrococcyx. iiiiget . 



Bill well curved, high at base ; claw of the hallux lengthened, nearly 

 straight. 



1013. Centrococcyx maximus, Hume, Str. F. vol. i. 454; vi. 



169; Murray, Vert.Zool. Sind, p. 118. The CROW PHEASANT, 



