342 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



M;iliiyan peninsula. 1 have seen it in Malabar and the Carnatic, 

 and it is also found in Central India, and not very uneommonly in 

 Bengal; in tlic latter country only during the rains. I obtained 

 it in Sikhiin in the warmer valleys. I do not know its call, nor 

 if it has any peculiarity of habit. 



Besides the C. gkmdarius, already alluded to, there are two 

 other species, both of them African, and one of them was long 



confounded with o\ir Indian biitl, C. scrratus ; the other, C. cifev. 



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The next forms a group by itself, distingia;^hed among other 

 ])oints by its thick green bill, by the sexes differing in colour, 

 and by their fnigivorous diet. 



Gen. EuDYNAMYS, Vigors and Horsf. 



Char. — Bill strong, thick, vertically deep, much curved at tip, 

 and hooked ; the lower mandible nearly straight ; gonys slightly 

 undulated upwards ; nostrils long, oval ; wings, with the 4tli quill 

 longest ; tail lengthened, rounded ; rump and u()per tail-feathers 

 soft ; tarsus strong, not feathered below the joint, flattened 

 in front. 



This genus includes several nearly allied species from India, 

 Malayan?, and Australia, and is indeed mostly oceanic. The male, 

 ■which is generally the smaller bird, is black, and the female more 

 or less spotted with white. They are the most frugivorous of all 

 the Cuciilince. 



214. Eudynamys orientalis, Lin. 



Cucuhis, apud Linn. — PI. Enl. 273, f.l — Jkudon, Cat. 228 — 

 Blyth, Cat. 358— Horsf., Cat. 1034— Sykks, Cat. 127— C. niger, 

 Mindanensis, and scolopaceus L. — C. maculatus, Gmelin (the 

 female) — Kitel II., the female sometimes called koreyala, i. e. the 

 ' spotted' Kokil, Beng. — Kokila, Tel., the male being called 

 Nallak., and the female Podak. 



Tiiii Indian Koel. 



Descr. — ]\Iale, glossy greenish black ihroughout. 



Bill pale gieenish ; inside of the mouth reddish ; irides fine 

 crimson ; legs slaty blue. Length 15^ inches ; extent 23 ; wing 7i ; 

 tail 7^ ; bill at front 1: tarsus li. 



