228 CUCULID^E. 



a 3 . Bill red throughout ; general colour 



above grey ZANCLOSTOMUS, p. 230. 



b 3 . Bill partly or wholly green. 



a*. Culmen much curved throughout : 



sexes alike in plumage. 

 a 5 . Tail-feathers with white tips. 

 a 6 . Naked sides of face not united 



across forehead RHOPODYTES, p. 230. 



b 6 . Naked sides efface united . . PHCENicopHAEs,p.234. 



b 5 . No white on tail-feathers KHAMPHOCOCCYX, 



b*. Culmen almost straight except at [p. 235. 



tip : sexes dissimilar RHINORTHA, p. 236. 



b". Breast and back-feathers spiny, colour 



brownish TACCOCUA, p. 237. 



b'. Claw of hallux much lengthened and 



nearly straight CENTROPUS, p. 239. 



Genus EUDYNAMIS, Vig. & Horsf., 1826. 



Sexes dissimilar ; the adult male being black, the adult female 

 spotted or barred. The changes in the young are peculiar, the 

 nestling, in the only species in which the various phases have been 

 studied, having the coloration of the adult male, then changing 

 into a garb resembling that of the female. 



The bill is stout, the culmen rounded and much curved ; the 

 wing and tail subequal in length, the latter moderately graduated, 

 the rectrices broad. No crest. Legs stout ; tarsus strongly 

 scutellate in front, only plumed at the extreme base. 



The genus ranges throughout the Oriental region to New 

 Guinea and Australia. About six species are known, only one of 

 which inhabits India. 



1120. Eudynamis honorata. The Indian Koel. 



Cuculus honoratus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 169 (1766). 



Cuculus orientalis, apud Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 913, nee Linn. 



Eudynamis orientalis, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 222 ; Pearson, 

 J.A.S. B. x, p. 657 ; Blyih, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 245 ; xvi, p. 468 ; 

 id. Cat. p. 73 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 707 ; Jerdon, B. L i, p. 342 ; 

 Blyih, Ibis, 1866, p. 363 ; A. Anderson, Ibis, 1873, p. 74. 



Eudynamis honorata, Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 338 ; Hume, N. $ E. 

 p. 139; id. S. F. i, p. 173 ; Adam, ibid. p. 373; A. Anderson, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 142; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 463; Butler, S. F. vii, 

 p. 182 ; Ball, ibid. p. 207 ; Hume, Cat. no. 214; Scully, S. F. viii, 

 p. 257 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 251 ; Reid, 8. F. x, p. 27 ; Barnes, 

 Birds Bom. p. 130 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 392 ; 

 Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 316. 



Eudynamis malayana, Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, p. 52 (1862) ; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 339 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 192 ; xi, p. 77 ; id. 

 Cat. no. 214 bis ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 162 ; Oates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 119 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 581 ; v, p. 569. 



Eudvnamis chinensis, Cab. fy Hein, 1. c. note ; Blyth, Birds Burm. 

 p/81. 



Koel, H. ; Kokil, Beng. ; Kokila, Nallak rf, Podak $, Tel.; Kusil, 

 Koel, Tamul (Ceylon) ; Kaputa Koha 3 , Gomera Koha , Cing. ; Ou-au, 

 Burmese. 



