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Fairly common near Ban Kok Klap, wlience four specimens were 

 obtained. Our Dyaks however always rather shirk shootin*^ both this 

 and other species of the genus, partly from the fact that they are 

 omen birds and therefore unlucky to kill but principally for the more 

 material reason that they are exceedingly troublesome to skin. 



CUCULID^. 

 32. HIEROCOCCYX NISICOLOR. 



Hierococcyx fugax (Horsf.) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix., 

 p. 236 (1891). 



Hierococcyx, nisicolor (Hodgs.) ; Robinson and Kloss, torn, cit., 

 p. 40. 



An adult of undetermined sex from Ban Kok Klap. 



" Iris hazel, feet and claws chrome, bill yellowish green at base, 

 black at tip of lower mandible and on culmen, orbital skin rich 

 lemon." 



33. CHALCOCOCCYX ZANTHORHY^XHUS. 



Chalcococcyx zanthorhynchiis (Horsf.) ; Shelley, torn, cit , p. 289 ; 

 Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 41. 



This beautiful little cuckoo was fairly common at Ban Kok Klap, 

 where two adult males and an immature female, with the head almost 

 uniform chestnut and with but little greenish gloss on the dark bars 

 of the upper surface, were obtained. 



Adult male " Iris red, orbital skin vermilion, bill orange, vermilion 

 at base, feet greenish slate."' 



In the south of the Peninsula both this species and the emerald 

 cuckoo, Ch. macidatuti are rare and possibly only seasonal visitors, 

 but in the northern districts both species are much commoner. 



34. OENTROPUS SINENSIS INTERMEDIUS. 



Centrococcyx intermedins (Hume) ; Stray Feath., i., p. 454 (1873). 



Centropue sinensis (Steph.) ; Shelley, tom. cit., p. 343 ; Robinson 

 and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 41. 



Centropus sinensis intermedins, Stresemann, Nov. Zool, xx., p. 322 

 (1913). 



A single female, wing 212 mm., from Ban Kok Klap. 



" Iris carmine, bill and feet black." 



As Stresemann {loc. cit.) states the forms of pheasant cuckoo 

 inhabiting the northern and southern districts are quite distinguish- 

 able, the present race being considerably smaller, especially in the 

 length of the tail ; the interscapular region is also of a darker chestnut. 

 The name applicable to the southern race is Gentropus sinensis buhutus, 

 Horsf. [Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii., p. 180 (1822) J. 



