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at front, 083 ; closed wings fall snort of end of tail, 2"25 ; 

 weight, 4 ozs. Irides stone colour ; legs and orbits bright yellow ; 

 claws yellowsh white ; bill, blackish above, green beneath ; 

 gape bright yellow ; naked skin round eyes greenish. 



2nd June, Female. — Length, 13*0; expanse, 22*0 ; wing, 6'92 ; 

 tail from vent, 675 ; tarsus, 092 ; bill from gape, 1*24 ; 

 at front, 083 ; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 

 2*75 ; weight, 4'12 ozs. Legs and claws yellow ; mouth, inside 

 light yellow ; irides stone colour, tinged yellow ; gape and 

 eyelids bright yellow ; orbital skin light dingy green ; bill 

 light greenish ; the terminal half of upper mandible dusky ; 

 ovaries containing yolks, size of S. IS. G. shot. 



The females are more rufous than the males. Very common ; 

 frequents wooded and cultivated country, and is a source of 

 terror to all the small birds. The female bird has a harsh grating 

 call quite different from that of the male. 



208— Cacomantis passerinus, Vahl. 



16th December 1877, Female.'— Length, 9 - 25 ; expanse, 11'5 ; 

 wing, 4 "42 ; tail from vent, 4*58 ; tarsus, 05 ; bill from gape, 0*83 ; 

 at front, 0*66 ; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 2*42. 

 Irides dark brown, with an outer edge of earthy brown ; bill, 

 upper mandible black, lower, reddish brown ; tarsus horny ; soles 

 of feet yellowish ; mouth, inside beautiful deep orange. 



I came across it in a small plain studded with babool trees. 

 A King Crow was worrying it. Since then I have on two occa- 

 sions come across a bird which looked like this species, but with 

 a deal of rufous on the breast ; this bird had a regular cuculine 

 head. Frequents hedgerows and the outskirts of villages. 



209.— Cacomantis threnodes, Cab. (S.F., VI, 158.) 



2nd January 1878. — Length, 9'0 ; expanse, 12*0 ; wing, 4 '37 ; 

 tail from vent, 5'0; tarsus, 0'75; bill from gape, 0-85; bill 

 at front, 0*58 ; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 2*50. 

 Irides light brown ; legs fleshy yellow ; claws horny ; lower 

 mandible dusky yellow ; upper mandible horny ; mouth, inside 

 deep pinkish red. 



The only one I procured ; it settled on one of the small raised 

 footpaths ryots have as borders to their fields (called "ile") and 

 between two fields of rapeseed when I knocked it over ; it had 

 just flown out from some forest and cane jungle. 



212.— Coccystes jacobinus, Bodd. 



2\st May 1878, Female. — Length, 13*50; expanse, 17*0; 

 wing, 5*75; tail from vent, 6*70; tarsus, l'Oj bill from gape, 



