114 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



with blue and the inner webs marked with white, the outer tail-feathers 

 with large white spots ; the lower plumage, from the breast downwards, 

 white barred with metallic green. 



Males not quite mature have the forehead, sides of the head, chin, throat 

 and breast barred with white. 



I have not been able to examine an adult female of this species ; but it 

 probably differs from the male. 



Two immature birds have the whole forehead, crown and nape unbarred 

 rufous. 



Legs and feet dark brownish green ; bill bright orange-yellow, tipped 

 black ; irides red-brown. (Davison.) 



Length 7 inches, tail 3, wing 4 '4, tarsus *6, bill from gape '85. 



Specimens of this species are tolerably common in collections in 

 England ; but they are not sexed. I am consequently unable to state in 

 what way, if any, the female differs from the male. The Siamese bird, 

 named by Mr. Gould, appears to me, from the examination of the type in 

 the British Museum, to be identical with some birds from the Himalayas. 



The Emerald Cuckoo is found over the greater portion of the Province. 

 Colonel Lloyd sent it to England from Tonghoo, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 

 procured it in the Karin hills near that town. Mr. Olive got one specimen 

 near Prome, which I had the opportunity of examining. Mr. Davison 

 observed it in Tenasserim as far south as Mooleyit mountain, and Capt. 

 Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. Mr. Blyth states that it is found in 

 Arrakan. 



It occurs in various parts of India from the Himalayas to Ceylon, and it 

 extends into Western China and Siam. 



498. CHRYSOCOCCYX XANTHORHYNCHUS. 



THE VIOLET CUCKOO. 



Cuculus xanthorhynchus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 ; id. Zool. Res. 

 Jam, pi. Cuculus malayanus, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 286. Chry- 

 sococcyx xanthorhynchus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 62 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 80 ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 89 ; Gates, S. F. x. 

 p. 193. Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 191, iii. p. 81 ; 

 Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 161, 506. Lamprococcyx malayanus, Hume 

 Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 503 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89. 



Description. Male. The whole plumage brilliant violet-purple, except on 

 the abdomen, vent, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts, which are 



