116 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



mouth orange; legs greenish brown; claws black. Female and young: 

 base of bill and gape orange ; terminal portion of the bill dark brown ; 

 the other parts as in the male. 



Length 6'5 inches, tail 3, wing 4, tarsus '6, bill from gape "75. The 

 female is of the same size. 



I have no doubt, after carefully examining a large series of these birds, 

 that C. xanthorhynchus and C. malayanus are the same species, the former 

 being the male, the latter the female. I have already (/. c.) fully entered 

 into this question. 



The Violet Cuckoo is apparently found in all parts of Burmah and 

 Karennee. I met with it very abundantly at Kyeikpadein and near 

 Rangoon, and I also procured it near Thayetmyo. Lieut. Lloyd, R.E., 

 shot a specimen in Karennee, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay also records 

 it from that State. In Tenasserim Mr. Davison obtained it at various 

 points, and my men secured specimens at Malewoon. 



It extends north to Cachar and the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and it 

 also occurs in the Andaman Islands. It is recorded from Cochin China, 

 the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippine Islands. 



This small and lovely Cuckoo is usually found in dense groves of trees 

 searching among the leaves for caterpillars, which form the chief portion 

 of its food. It is a silent bird, and is likely to escape observation ; for it 

 is very quiet in its movements. It is a constant resident in Burmah, and 

 probably lays its eggs in the nests of the Grass -Warblers. 



499, CHRYSOCOCCYX LIMBORGI. 

 THE WHITE-COLLARED VIOLET CUCKOO. 



Chrysococcyx limborgi, Tweedd. P.Z. S. 1877, p. 366; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 319, 

 viii. p. 89 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 168. 



Description. Adult male. Like C. xanthorhynchus , but with a broad 

 white collar on the upper back reaching to the sides of the neck. 



Bill yellow ; legs rich green ; irides red. (Limborg.} 



Length about 7 inches, tail 3'1, wing 4, tarsus '55, bill from gape '8. 



The only bird of this species I have been able to examine is the type 

 specimen in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection. The white collar is 

 extremely regular in shape and symmetrical, and there is nothing, primd 

 facie, to lead me to consider it an accidental variety. 



The type was shot in Tenasserim at the base of Mooleyit mountain on 

 the Houng-draw river; and Capt. Bingham records the occurrence of a 

 Violet Cuckoo with indications of the white collar in the Thoungyeen 



