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shafts margined longitudinally on each side with 

 white : wing-coverts bay or brown with white shafts, 

 greater quills bay, with brownish tips : chin, throat, 

 breast, and belly white : rump, tail-coverts, and tail 

 fasciated black and ferruginous : at the end of the 

 last a whitish band. 



Sp. 15. Ce. castanopterus. 



Ce. niger nitens tectricibus alarum, scapulis, teinigibusque cas- 



taneis. 

 Shining-black Coucal with the wing-coverts, scapulars, and quills 



chesnut. 

 Chesnut Coucal. Lath. Gen. Hist, v. iii. p. 243. pL liv.; young? 



Inhabits India. Length near seventeen inches ; 

 of which the tail occupies nearly one half, and is 

 slightly cuneiform : beak strong and black : irides 

 scarlet : general colour of the plumage shining black, 

 but all the wing-coverts, scapulars, and quills light 

 chesnut : legs black : the inner hind claw straight, 

 and twice the length of the other. The supposed 

 young bird has the head, neck, and under parts -ash- 

 coloured, streaked with white as far as the breast ; 

 over the eye a whitish stripe : belly and thighs 

 marked with transverse lines of white : tail plain 

 black, slightly cuneiform : wings chesnut. 



GENUS CCLVI.—SAUROTHERA, Vieillot. RAINBIRD. 



Rostrum capite longiuSjlseve, 

 lateratim compressum 

 supra convexum : mcm- 

 dibula superior denticu- 

 lata, apice curvato. 



Orbitce nudae. 



BeaJc longer than the head, 

 smooth, laterally com- 

 pressed, convex above : 

 the tipper mcmdible den- 

 ticulated, its tip curved. 



Orbits naked. 



