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occurs in Pegu. The specimen was so entirely destroyed in 

 transit that I cannot be absolutely certain of the species. Captain 

 Feilden sent specimens of this species, which are precisely identi- 

 cal with those I have from Dacca. He remarks : " I believe that 

 this bird remains at Thayetmyo throughout the year, but I do not 

 distinctly remember it in April and May. There are either two 

 varieties of this bird, or its winter plumage is much duller than 

 its summer garb. Those I send you were shot in January. I 

 have frequently found what I suppose to be the egg of this bird, 

 in the nest of a little Tailor Bird (not the common one) , whose 

 name is unknown to me." Doubtless, the Tailor Bird referred to 

 was one of the Prinias, as they are all Tailor Birds so far as the 

 construction of the nest is concerned. 



211 Ms.— Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, Horsf. 



Mr. Oates sends me a single specimen of a young Cuckoo in 

 the hepatic stage, which I identify as above. The bill corresponds 

 •precisely, though slightly smaller, as would be the case in quite a 

 young specimen; the wings are only 3*75. The feet appear to 

 have been pale fleshy, and the plumage is somewhat different 

 to any stage of that species with which I am accmainted. 



The whole head and neck all round is pale, rusty rufous, with 

 broad longitudinal blackish brown streaks ; the rest of the upper 

 plumage is hair brown. The primaries, unspotted; the secondaries, 

 tertiaries, and four central tail feathers, with a series of large 

 triangular rufous spots on the marginal halves of the webs, 

 imperfect bars, in fact not reaching to the shafts. The lateral tail 

 feathers, coverts, scapulars, back and upper tail covers, broadly 

 barred with the same dull rufous. Breast, abdomen, vent, and 

 lower tail coverts, dull white, here and there tinged fulvous, and 

 regularly barred with not very well-defined dull greyish-brown 

 bands. This is not a nestling bird, and is certainly not, I 

 think, the young of any other known Indian Cuckoo ; and if 

 it does not belong to this species, it must, I think, be new. It 

 was obtained at Chinzouk, and measured 6*95 inches in length 

 in the flesh. This species has been already described ; vol. 

 II., p. 191. 



Mr. Oates notes that this is the only specimen that he has met 

 with. 



212.— Oxyloplms jacobinus, Bodd. 



This appears to be a common species about Thayetmyo, whence 

 it has been sent by both Captain Feilden and Mr. Oates. The 

 latter remarks : " A few may always be seen near the rifle range ; 

 to the eastward, it extends to the foot of the hills, and south- 

 wards I have observed it as far as eighteen miles below Prome. 



