ORB. INSESSORES. 



TRIBE—SCANSORES. 



FAIL CUCULID^. 

 GEN. ZANCL OSTOMUS—Stcainson. 



PLATE HI. 



ZANCL 0ST03IUS VIRIDIB OSTRIS—Jerdon. 



GREEN-BILLED CUCKOO. 



Synon. — Phcenicophceus Jerdoni, Blytli. — J. A. S. 1842 — page 1095 — ^not Ph. viridirostris,- 



Eyton— P. Z. S. 1839.. 



I described tMs bii-d as apparently new in my Catalogue of Bu-ds of the Indian; 

 Peninsula already referred to, and ]SIr. Blyth: to whom I sent specimens so far assents to 

 this that he has given it a new name, but he says, " In most particulars this bird agrees 

 ■with Dr. Latham's description of his Madagascar Cuckoo the Serisomuscristatus of Swauison, 

 or Coucou Huppe de Madagascar of BuiTon,. which Levaillant states is also found in some 

 parts of India, Dr. Latham adding, that ' I find a similar one among the drawings of Mr, 

 DanieU, found in Ceylon, and there called Handee Kootah.' No doubt the present 

 species is alluded to in both cases." That the species foiind in Ceylon and figured by 

 DanieU may be identical with our bird, I have very little doubt, but that the Madagascar 

 Cuckoo, referred by Swaiason to his genus Seriscmus (which indeed appears to have been 

 created purposely for it) be the same as the species here figured^ no one, who compares the 

 structure of the bill of the Green-hilled Cuckoo with that of Serisomus cristatus (as given by 

 Swainson ia his Synopsis, evidently feom nature) can for a moment imagine ; and I presunre 

 that Mr. Blyth has drawn this hasty conclusion without referring to the figure here alluded to: 

 Mr. BLythmoreover has included this bird. in the genus Phasnicophmus of Vieillot,. though lie 



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