THE MALAYAN COEL. 119 



Capt. Feilden remarks that he has seen a pair of nestlings of this bird on 

 the same branch, and that it probably lays two eggs in the same nest. The 

 eggs are deep blue in colour. 



Genus EUDYNAMIS, Vig. & Horsf. 



502. EUDYNAMIS MALAYANA. 

 THE MALAYAN COEL. 



Eudynamis malayana, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hem. iv. p. 52 ; Wold. Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 339, 1873, p. 303 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 68 ; Hume, S. F. ii. p. 192, iii. p. 82 ; 

 Bl. $ Wald. B. Burm. p. 81 ; Wold. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 162 ; David et Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 61 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. K>2 : Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89 j 

 Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 168 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 392. Eudynamis chi- 

 nensis (Cab. et Hein.}, apud Bl. B. Burm. p. 81. 



Description. Male. The whole plumage black glossed with blue. 



The female has the whole head and neck streaked with black and rufous 

 in varying proportions according to age ; the whole lower plumage pale 

 rufous, cross-barred with black zigzag lines ; the upper plumage dark 

 brownish black spotted with rufous ; wings, tail and upper tail-coverts 

 black broadly barred with rufous ; the whole plumage shot with green and 

 blue. Other females differ in having the head-streaks deep rufous-bay ; 

 others have the head nearly all black, the rufous streaks being narrow 

 and few ; the bars on the lower plumage and the spots on the upper also 

 vary much in size. 



Young males have the wings and greater coverts dull brown, the coverts 

 tipped with white ; the under wing-coverts are also tipped with white ; 

 the lateral tail-feathers are irregularly barred with white near their tips. 



Bill dull green, dusky at the gape and about the nostrils ; mouth flesh- 

 colour ; iris bright crimson ; eyelids pinkish brown ; legs plumbeous ; 

 claws dark horn. 



Length 17 inches, tail 8, wing 8, tarsus 1'3, bill from gape 1*6. The 

 female is of about the same size. 



This species differs from the Indian E. honorata in the male being larger 

 with a larger bill, and in the female having the whole head and neck 

 streaked with black and the bars and spots on the body-plumage rufous, 

 whereas the female of E. honorata has these latter white. 



The Malayan Coel is abundant throughout British Burmah from 

 February to June. At other times of the year it is altogether absent. It 

 extends on the north as far as Cachar and the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, 



