130 CUCULIN.E. 



They are deep sky-blue in color, and measure 0'94 inches 

 in length by 073 in breadth. 



Coccystes coromandus, Lin. 



213. -Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 341 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 389. 



THE RED-WINGED CHESTED CUCKOO. 



Length, 14'5 to 15'5 ; expanse, 18 to 19 ; wing, 6'25 to 6*5 ; 

 tail, 8-5 to 9-8 ; tarsus, 0'8 to T08 ; bill at front, 1 ; bill from 

 gape, 1-3. 



Bill black; inside of mouth fleshy; irides hazel to red- 

 brown ; feet leaden or plumbeous. 



Upper parts with the tertiaries black, glossed with green, 

 paler on the tertiaries, and less glossed on the head ; a con- 

 spicuous half collar of white encircles the nape ; wings deep 

 ferruginous, with the tips of the primaries and secondaries 

 dusky ; under parts white, a little tinged with fulvous, except 

 the lower tail-coverts, which are green-black, and the throat 

 and foreneck, which are deep ochreous fulvous in some ; in 

 others, light fulvous. 



Mr. Vidal obtained a specimen at Savantwadi ; this is the 

 only recorded instance of its occurrence within our limits. 



GENUS, Eudynamis, Vig. & Horsf. 



Bill strong, thick, vertically deep, much curved at tip, and 

 hooked ; the lower mandible nearly straight ; gonys slightly 

 undulated upwards ; nostrils long, oval ; wings with the fourth 

 quill longest ; tail lengthened, rounded ; rump and upper tail- 

 feathers soft ; tarsus strong, not feathered below . the joint, 

 flattened in front. 



Eudynamis honorata, Lin. 



214. Eudynamis orientalis, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, 

 Vol. I, p. 342 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, 

 *i "?>1 P- 461 J Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 389 ; Murray's 



Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 117 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, 

 Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 63. 



THE INDIAN KOEL. THE BLACK CUCKOO. 



Rod, Hin. 



<?. Length, 15'5 ; expanse, 23; wing, 7'5 ; tail, 7*5; tarsus, 

 1-12; bill at front, 1. 



5. Length, 17'5 ; wing, 8; tail, 8. 



Bill pale greenish ; inside of mouth reddish ; irides crimson ; 

 legs slaty-blue. 



Male, glossy greenish-black throughout. 



Female, glossy dusky-green, spotted with white above ; wings 



and tail banded white ; beneath white, with black spots, longi- 



, tudinal on the throat and neck, somewhat heart-shaped 



