PHCENICOPHAUS JAVANICUS. 



Ord. III"^ Les Geimpeurs, Cuvier. 



Ord. V"* Zygodactyles, Temminck. 



Ord. II. Pic^, Linn. Syst. Sect. II. Pedibus scansoriis. 



Ord. I. ScANSORES, Illiger. Fam. 3, Amphiboli. 



PHCENICOPHAUS, Vieillot, TemmmcL 

 Les Malcohas, Vaill. Cuv. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum mediocre sive longiusculum, validum, crassum, glaberrimum, 

 arcuatum, culmine rotundato, tomiis integerrimis. Nares laterales lineares aut 

 . ovatiusculse, prope basin rostri sitae vel remotee ; vibriss^e sparse ad basin rostri. 

 Regio ophthalmica nuda mamillaris. Cauda gradata elongata. Al(e breves 

 rotundatse : remiges : prima ad quartam gradatim increscentes ; quarta et quinta 

 longissimffi. Pedes scansorii congrui. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acro- 

 podia scutulata. 



Phoenicophaus cano-viridescente niger, malis gula jugulo erisso cruribusque ferru- 



gineo-badiis, rectricibus apice albis. 

 Suhut-kemhang, oi iihe Jsivane^ie. 

 Phcenicophaus javanicus, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn, 



Trans. Vol. XIII. p. 178. 



Every ornithologist is acquainted with the difficulties which not unfrequently 

 occur in the classification of birds. After the most carefol examinations and compa- 

 risons, a doubt remains in many cases, as to the propriety of a disposition. This was 

 the case with the bird which was described with the name of Phcenicophaus javanicus, 

 in the Systematic Arrangement of Birds from Java, pubhshed in the Xlllth Volume 

 of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and which has been selected for the 

 present article. Our bird has a relation, as well to the genus Cuculus as to that of 

 Phcenicophaus, while in some characters it differs from both; and I have now to 

 state my reasons for associating it with the latter. The peculiarities which require 

 notice, in discriminating these two genera, are the relative compression and length of 



