

Genus COCCYSTES. 

 Head crested. Bill more curved and compressed than in the preceding genera. Nostrils 

 ovate, basal, exposed, and placed near the margin. Wings rather short, rounded, the 4th quill 

 the longest. Tail long, much graduated. Tarsus longer than in Cuculus, exceeding the inner 

 anterior toe ; the upper portion feathered, the rest covered with broad transverse scales ; outer 

 posterior toe considerably longer than the inner one. 



COCCYSTES JACOBINUS. 



(THE PIED CRESTED CUCKOO.) 



Cuculus jacobinus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 872 (1783). 



Cuculus mclanolcitcos, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. no. 35, p. 416 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 211 



(1790). 

 Oocylophus edolius, Jerd. (nee Cuv.) Cat. B. S. India, Madr. Journ. 1840, xi. p. 222. 

 Oxylophus melanoleucos, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 74 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 451. 

 Oxylophiis serratus, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 128 (1852). 

 Coccystes melanoleucos, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 094 (1850) ; Jerdon, B. 



of Ind. i. p. 339. 

 Coccystes jacobinus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 45 (1802) ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 432 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs (Bough Draft), p. 137 (1873) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 



p. 597 ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 360 ; Ball, ibid. p. 394 ; Butler, ibid. 1875, p. 401 ; 



Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 284; Morgan, ibid. 1875, p. 315; Hume, Str. Feath. 1870, 



p. 457. 

 Jacobin huppe de Coromandel, Daubent. PI. Enl. pi. 872 ; The Pied Cuckoo, in India; Pqpiya, 



Hind., also Chatak; Kola Bulbul, Bengal. ; Gola kokila, lit. "Milkman Cuckoo," also 



Tanyada gorankah, Telugu (Jerdon). 

 Konde Jcoha, lit. " Crested Cuckoo," Sinhalese. 



Idult mal< and female. Length L2"0 to L3"0 inches; wing 6'4 to <! - 7 ; tail 5"4 to 5 - 5 ; tarsus 1/0 ; outer anterior 

 i lt . ■ - 8, it-* claw (straight) 0*3 ; bill to gape 1*1. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet bluish slate, edges of scales whitish, claws blackish. 



Head, checks, upper surface, tail, and wings glossy green-black, the crown-feathers lanceolate and rather stiff, forming 

 a fine crest one inch in. length ; quills dull black ; basal half of primaries, with the exception of that part of the 

 outer web of the 1st and inner web of the last, white : central rectrices tipped white, and the terminal | inch 

 of i he rest the same hue: entire under surface and under wing-coverts sullied white, which passes up behind the 

 ear-coverts "ii to the sides of the neck ; greater lower primary-coverts blackish. 



1 '/»/. Birds of the year have the bill pale at the base ; the legs and feet paler than the adults. The upper surface 

 is sepia-brown, with the nape, ear-coverts, and sides of neck blackish : the forehead paler than the head, and the 

 lesser wing-coverts are edged with greyish ; beneath fulvous-grey or buff-white, with the sides of the throat 

 brownish from the chin to below the ear-coverts. 



Obs, An individual from the hills in the north-west of India measures — wing 5-7 inches, tail trS, bill to gape 1-3 



