120 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



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but apparently not to Nipal, as has been stated. It occurs in the Malay 

 peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Siam and Cochin China, and it is also 

 recorded from China. 



The well-known Coel arrives in Burmah at the commencement of the 

 hot season, and all the country becomes alive with these handsome Cuckoos 

 at about the same time. Its loud and melodious call strikes the ear every- 

 where alike in dense forest and in cultivated grounds. It lays its eggs in 

 the nests of Crows ; and Dr. Tiraud states that in Cochin China the eggs 

 are also placed in the nests of Mynahs. I have seen Jungle-Crows care- 

 fully tending young Coels as late as the 23rd May. The eggs are green 

 blotched with reddish brown. 



Subfamily PHGENICOPH^IN^E. 



Genus EHINORTHA, Vigors. 



503. RHINORTHA CHLOROPELEA, 



THE SMALL GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA. 



Cuculus ehlorophaeus, JRaffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 288. Rhynortha chlo- 

 rophsea, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 69. Rhinortha chlorophaea, Bl. B. Burm. 

 p. 82 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 166 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck, 

 back and wings chestnut, deeper on the wings, the quills of which are 

 tipped with dusky ; rump and upper tail-coverts smoky brown, closely and 

 indistinctly barred with yellowish brown; tail dark smoky brown or 

 blackish tipped with white, the whole surface, except near the white tips, 

 closely barred with yellowish brown ; cheeks, chin, throat and breast pale 

 chestnut or buff, passing to dusky on the lower breast; remainder of the 

 lower plumage smoky grey obsoletely barred darker ; under wing-coverts 

 chestnut. 



The female has the forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck 

 grey; the remainder of the upper plumage bright chestnut; the quills 

 tipped dusky ; the tail tipped white, with a subterminal black bar ; chin, 

 throat and upper breast grey, paler than the head, and in some birds 

 tinged with fulvous ; lower breast fulvous, deepening on the abdomen and 

 sides of the body ; vent and under tail -coverts dull chestnut ; under wing- 

 coverts chestnut. 



