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graduated; the wing is short and rounded, the primaries only 

 extend one-fourth to one-fifth the length of the closed wing 

 beyond the secondaries ; the tarsus is bare except at the base. 

 Bill compressed, culmen much curved towards the tip. Sexes 

 alike. No distinct plumage in the young. 



The six species belonging to this genus range throughout 

 Africa, Southern Europe, and Southern Asia. Two are Indian. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper parts entirely black <?. jacobinus, p. 225. 



A white collar ; wings mostly chestnut C. coromandus, p. 226. 



1118. Coccystes jacobinus. The Pied Crested Cuckoo. 



Cuculus jacobinus, Bodd. Tabl PI Enl p. 53 (1783). 



Cuculus melanoleucus, Gm. Syst. Nat. \, p. 416 (1788). 



Oxylophus melanoleucus, Blyth, Cat. p. 74. 



Coccystes melanoleucus, Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii, p. 694 ; Jerdon, B. I. 

 i, p. 339 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 15 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 

 pt. 2, p. 23 ; King, ibid. p. 214 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, 

 pt. 2, p. 155 ; Cordeaux, Ibis, 1888, p. 224. 



Coccystes jacobinus, Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 432 ; Hume, S. F. 

 i, p. 173 ; xi, p. 76 ; id. Cat. no. 212 ; Morgan, Ibis, 1875, p. 315 ; 

 Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 81 ; Butler, S. F. v, p. 327 ; vii, 

 p. 181 ; Davidson $ Wenden, ibid. p. 79 ; Ball,ibid. p. 207 ; Cripps, 

 ibid. p. 265 ; Legge, Birds CeyL p. 246 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 50 ; Damson, S. F. x, p. 360 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 118 ; id. in 

 Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 388 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 129 ; 

 Norman, Ibis, 1888, p. 402 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 217. 



Pupiya, Chatak, H. : Kola bulbttl, Beng. ; Gola kokila, Tangada 

 yorankah, Tel. 



Fig. 64. Head of C. jacobinus, \. 



Coloration. Upper plumage throughout and the sides of the 

 head black glossed with green ; quills dark brown, with a broad 

 white band near the base across the inner webs of all except the 

 three innermost, and across the outer w^ebs of all primaries except 

 the first ; tail-feathers with white tips, very broad on the outer, 

 narrow on the middle pair ; lower parts white, sometimes grey- 

 brown, the basal part of the feathers showing. Toung birds are 



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