P I C A R I tE. 



CUCULIDvE. 



PHCENICOPHAIN^E. 



Genus PHCENICOPHAES. 

 Bill stout, wide at the base, and suddenly compressed, the tip well bent down ; the upper 

 mandible very high : the nostrils linear and close to the margin, which is lobed just beneath 

 them. Face clothed with a short papillose substance. Wings rounded ; the 5th quill the 

 longest and the 1st the shortest. Tail very long, broad, and much graduated. Tarsus longer 

 than the middle toe and its claw, covered with broad transverse scales ; outer anterior toe 

 considerably longer than the outer posterior one ; claws short and much curved. Feathers of 

 the throat with stiff shafts projecting beyond the webs. 



PHCENICOPHAES PYRRHOCEPHALTJS. 



(THE RED-PACED MALKOHA.) 



(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 



Cuculus pyrrhocephalus, Forster, Ind. Zoologie, p. 16, pi. vi. (1781); Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 417. no. 40 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 222 (1790). 



Phmnicophceus pyrrhocephalus, Stephens, Gen. Zool. ix. i. p. 59 (1825); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 1842, p. 927; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 98 (1850). 



Phcenicophaus leucogaster, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xviii. p. 461 (1816). 



Melias pyrrhocephalus, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 131 (1831). 



Phcenicophaus pyrrhocephalus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 199 ; Gray, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 45!*; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 75. no. 369 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 129 

 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 453; Legge, J. A. S. (Ceyl. Br.) 

 1870-71, p. 37; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 433 ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 346 ; 

 id. Ibis, 1874, p. 16, et 1875, p. 285. 



Phcenicophaus ceylonensis, Licht. in Mus. Berl. 



Phcenicophaes pyrrhocephalus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. pt. iv. p. 68 (1862). 



The Red-faced, Cuckoo (rothkopfige Kukkuk), Forster ; Malkoha, Pennant and Kelaart. 



Mal-kcendetta, Sinhalese, Western Province ; Warrelliya, in Friars-Hood district. 



3 supra metallice viridis, alis dorso concoloribus, primariis extus vix cyauescentibus : rectricibus olivasceuti-viridibus, 

 late albo terminatis : pileo colloque postieo nigricantibus, plumis albido margiuatis, quasi striolatis : facie laterali 

 tota nuda, papillosa, rubra : genis et regione parotic;!, luento gulaque summa striolatim albis : gutture reliquo 

 nigro : praepectore et colli lateribus nigris albido striatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo : tibiis fuscesceuti-viridibus : 

 subalaribus metallice chalybeo-viridibus, remigibus quoque subtus chalybeo niteutibus : rostro fiavicauti-viridi, 

 maadibula pallidiore : pedibus cyanesceuti-schistaceis, uuguibus bruuuescenti-corneis : iride bruunea. 



2 mari similis, sed iride alba distinguenda. 



