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have rudiments of other white bars ; rest of the same splendid 

 color as the back ; bill wholly yellow, and much less thick than 

 represented in Dr. Horsfield's plate ; and feet apparently dusky : 

 the crown is very slightly crested. Inhabits Java, where 

 stated to be rare and very shy. Dr. Heifer mentions its existence 

 also in the Tenasserim provinces, and it is probable that the 

 Asiatic Society's specimen was thence obtained." 



A young bird has the upper mandible, and the tip of the lower 

 mandible brown ; gape, and the rest of lower mandible bright 

 yellow. 'The whole of the upper surface, including wings and 

 central tail feathers, a hair brown glossed with coppery green ; the 

 head and upper neck broadly and closely, the scapulars more nar- 

 rowly and widely apart, banded with pale chesnut. The second- 

 aries, later primaries, and most of the coverts margined with 

 the same color ; lateral tail feathers blackish white, tipped with 

 white or rufescent white, and broadly banded with pale chesnut, 

 these bands becoming white on the outer margin of the outer 

 tail feather. The lateral tail feathers have a little of the same 

 metallic green gloss that the upper parts have. The entire 

 lower parts white, barred with blackish brown, which in some 

 few of the bars, on the sides of the breast, have a green metallic 

 lustre. In this specimen two feathers on the head, and two 

 tertiaries, have assumed the beautiful violet purple hue of the 

 adult. 



In another specimen the young and adult plumage is so 

 intermingled that almost every alternate feather belongs to the 

 perfect plumage. 



214. — Eudynamys honorata, Lin. (0.) 



Beavan says : — " The koel was twice observed by Colonel 

 Tytlei; at the Andamans besides being frequently heard calling in 

 the woods." No specimen, however, was ever obtained by Colonel 

 Ty tier, nor, as far as I can learn, by any one else ; and as the 

 note of the next species (or sub-species ?) is precisely similar, 

 I have no doubt that Ty tier's bird was malayana. For the 

 present I exclude this species from our list. 



214 Us.— Eudynamys malayana, Cab. (7.) 



We found this species throughout the Andaman and Nicobar 

 group from the Great Cocos on the north to Galatea Bay on the 

 south, and there is, therefore, every reason to believe that it is 

 identical with Cabanis' species described from Sumatra. Whether 

 this race is entitled to specific difference I am not yet prepared 

 to say ; even if it be so, malayana and houorata certainly grade 



