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Length, 15°5 to 15°9 ; expanse, 16:0 to 16:2; tail, 9:0 to 10:0; 
wing, 5°1 to 5°4; tarsus, 1-4; bill from gape, 14; weight, 2°5 
to 8 ozs. Ivides deep brown; bill, pale apple-green ; orbital 
skin, pale blue, palest round the eye, gradually deepening in 
shade toward the feathers ; legs and feet plumbeous. 
217.—Centrococcyx rufipennis, Z//. The Coucal, 
or Crow Pheasant, 
Occurs commonly through the Wynaad and slopes of the 
Nilghiris.. It occurs also on the plateau of the Nilghiris but 
Jess numerously. Itis looked upon as a great delicacy by the 
matives.* I noticed that through the portion of Mysore lying 
-between the foot of the Nilghiris and Wynaad, it was a com- 
paratively rare bird. 
218.—Centrococcyx bengalensis, Gm. The: Lesser 
Coucal. 
I only met with this species on some half a dozen occasions 
in the Wynaad, and always in long grass. I have never met 
with it on the Nilghiris or its slopes. 
219.—Taccocua leschenaulti, Less. The Southern 
Sirkee. 
I have only occasionally met with this species, and should 
class it as a comparatively rare bird in the portion of Southern 
India that I have worked. Ihave met with it up to about 
6,000 feet on the slopes of the Nilghiris, 
924,—Arachnothera longirostra, Zath. The Little 
Spider-hunter. 
Not uncommon on the slopes of the Nilghiris up to about 
5,500 feet and through the Wynaad. It ‘affects. the better 
wooded portions of the country. 
The following are the dimensions, &e., recorded in the flesh 
of a fine adult male of this species :— 
Length, 63; expanse, 8:6; tail, 1:7; wing, 2°6; tarsus, 
1:4; bill from gape, 06; weight, 0-7 OZ. 
Upper mandible black; lower mandible pale plumbeous ; 
legs, feet, and claws plumbeous; irides very deep blackish 
slate. 
* So it, and th? allied species maximus and ? catieg appear to be, by the 
Mahomedang, throughout Northern and Eastern India.—Eb,, S. F, 
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