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Fairly common near Ban Kok Klap, whence four specimens were 
obtamed. Our Dyaks however always rather shirk shooting both this 
and other species of the genus, partly from the fact that they are 
omen birds and therefore unlucky to kill but principally for the more 
material reason that they are exceedingly troublesome to skin. 
CUCULIDA. 
32, HIEROCOCCYX NISICOLOR. 
Hierococcyx fugax (Horsf.); Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix., 
p. 236 (1891). = 
Mierococcyx nisicolor (Hodgs.); Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., 
p- 40. 
An adult of undetermined sex from Ban Kok Klap. 
“Tris hazel, feet and claws chrome, bill yellowish green at base, 
black at tip of lower mandible and on culmen, orbital skin rich 
lemon.” 
33. CHALCOCOCCYX ZANTHORHYNCHUS, 
Chaleococcyx zanthorhynchus (Horsf.); Shelley, tom. cit., p. 289; 
Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 41. 
This beautiful little cuckoo was fairly common at Ban Kok Klap, 
where two adult males and an immature female, with the head almost 
uniform chestnut and with but little greenish gloss on the dark bars 
of the upper surface, were obtained. 
Adult male “Tris red, orbital skin vermilion, bill orange, vermilion 
at base, feet greenish slate.” 
In the south of the Peninsula both this species and the emerald 
cuckoo, Ch. maculatus are rare and possibly only seasonal visitors, 
but in the northern districts both species are much commoner. 
34. CENTROPUS SINENSIS INTERMEDIUS. 
Centrococcyx intermedius (Hume); Stray Feath.,1., p. 454 (1873). 
Centropus sinensis (Steph.) ; Shelley, tom. cit., p. 343; Robinson 
and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 41. 
Centropus sinensis intermedius, Stresemann, Nov. Zool, xx., p. 322 
(1913). 
A single female, wing 212 mm., from Ban Kok Klap. 
“ Tris carmine, bill and feet black.” 
As Stresemann (loc. cit.) states the forms of pheasant cuckoo 
inhabiting the northern and southern districts are quite distinguish- 
able, the present race being considerably smaller, especially in the 
length of the tail; the interscapular region is also of a darker chestnut. 
The name applicable to the southern race is Centropus sinensis bubutus, 
Horsf. [Trans. Linn, Soc., xiii., p. 180 (1822) ]. 
