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valley, not very far from where Mr. Limborg procured the typical and only 

 specimen he obtained. Not one out of a very numerous series of C. xan- 

 thorhynchus from the Pegu Division exhibits any white on the back or hind 

 neck ; so that, on the whole, I am inclined to consider C. limborgi a distinct 

 species, confined, so far as we at present know, to Tenasserim. 



Genus COCCYSTES, Gloger. 



500. COCCYSTES COROMANDUS. 

 THE RED-WINGED CRESTED CUCKOO. 



Cuculus coromandus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 171. Coccystes coromandus, Jerd. 

 B. 2nd. i. p. 341 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 138 ; Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 67 ; 

 Hume, S. F. iii. p. 82 j Bl B. Burm. p. 81 ; David et Oust. Ois. CMne, p. 61 ; 

 Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 249 ; Hume $ Dav. <S r . F. vi. p. 162 ; Hwne, 8. F. viii. 

 p. 89 ; Scully, 8. F. viii. p. 257. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead, lores, feathers under the 

 eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, crown, nape and crest black ; chin, throat and 

 fore neck fulvous ; a white collar round the hind neck ; upper plumage, 

 tail, lesser wing-coverts and the innermost greater coverts black, tinged 

 with green and blue ; the tail-feathers tipped with dirty white, increasing 

 in extent towards the outside ; primaries, secondaries and greater coverts 

 chestnut tipped with brown ; tertiaries glossy brown ; under wing-coverts 

 pale chestnut ; breast and abdomen white, tinged with fulvous ; vent 

 smoky brown, turning to black on the coverts, which are also tipped with 

 whitish ; thighs and sides of the body greyish brown tinged with rufous. 



The young have the black in the upper plumage of the adult replaced by 

 glossy brown edged with rufous ; the collar is tinged with rufous ; chin, 

 throat and upper breast fulvous-white ; the tail-feathers have larger tips. 



Bill black ; mouth salmon-colour ; iris pale reddish brown ; eyelids 

 plumbeous; legs plumbeous; claws horny. The young have the iris 

 brown, the gape orange. 



Length 18'5 inches, tail 10, wing 6'4, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1*4. The 

 female is quite as large as the male. 



The Red-winged Crested Cuckoo is very common over the whole of 

 Pegu, except in the large grassy plains of the south. Mr. Blyth records it 

 from Arrakan. Mr. Davison states that it is extremely rare in Tenas- 

 serim, and he procured it only at Amherst and near Tavoy. Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay observed it in Karennee. 



It is a bird of wide range, as it occurs in the Indo-Burmese countries, the 



