Genus EUDYNAMYS. 

 Bill stout, wide at the base, not so much compressed as in Coccystes. Nostrils oval, exposed, 

 not so near the margin as in the last. Wings long ; the 3rd and 4th quills subequal and longest, 

 the 1st nearly equal to the innermost. Tail not so much graduated as in the last genus. Legs 

 and feet stout. Tarsus about equal to the anterior toe, and shielded with stout, broad, transverse 

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EUDYNAMYS HONORATA. 



(THE INDIAN KOEL.) 



Cuculus honor atus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 169 (female) (1766) ; Lath. Ind. Oin. i. p. 214 (1790). 



Cuculus niger, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 170. no. 12 (male) (1766). 



Cuculus indicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 221 (1790). 



Eudynamys oriental's, Sykes (nee Linn.), P. Z. S. 1832, p. 97; Jerd. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 



Journ. 1840, xi. p. 222 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 468 ; id. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 



1847, p. 385 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 73 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 129 



(1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 451 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. I. Co. p. 708 (1856) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 342 ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 230; 



Legge, ibid. 1874, p. 16. 

 Cuculus (Eudynamys) honoratus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 912 (female). 

 Eudynamys lionoratus, Gray, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 464 (1845). 

 Eudynamys honorata, Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 327 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 432 ; Hume, 



Nests and Eggs (Eough Draft), p. 139 (1873); Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 394; 



Anderson, Ibis, 1875, p. 142 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 463. 

 Eudynamys horonata, Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 173. 

 The Black Indian Cuckow, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, p. 58 (male) ; Breton and Spotted 



Indian Cuckoiv, Edwards, torn. cit. p. 59 (female) ; Coucou tachete de Bengal, Eaubent. 



PL Enl. pi. 294 (female) ; Black Cuckoo of some ; Koel, Hind, (female), sometimes 



Koreyala, lit. " spotted " ; Kokil, Bengal. ; Eokila, Tel. (male Nalak, female Podak). 

 Kaputa koha (male), Gomera koha (female). 

 Coosil and Koel, Ceylonese Tamils (apud Layard). 



Adult male. Length 15 - to 15'3 inches; wing 7"0 to 7 - 4 ; tail 7'0 to 7"5 ; tarsus 1*15 to 1*2 ; outer anterior toe 



1-25, its claw (straight) 0-45 ; bill to gape 1-55. 

 Iris crimson ; bill pale bluish green, blackish or dusky round the nostrils ; legs and feet leaden blue. 

 Entire plumage black, with a stroDg metallic green lustre; the scapulars, wing-coverts, and tail with a bluish sheen 



as well. 



Adult fern ale. Length 15-5 to 16 - 5 inches; wing 7 - 3 to 7 - 75; tail 7' 8 ; tarsus 1-25; outer anterior toe 1-3, claw 

 (straight) 045. 



Iris red ; bill faded bluish, dusky at base and round the nostrils ; legs and feet dusky slaty green or faded bluish. 



Above metallic brownish green ; hind neck, back, and lesser wing-coverts spotted and barred with white, the markings 

 on the first-named part are limited to spots, and the barring on the wing-coverts consists of interrupted bar- 

 like spots ; the wings vary considerably in the character of their markings ; quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail 



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