Key to the Species. 



A. Tail banded throughout on the central rectrices with 



alternate black and rufous ... ... ... ... M.tusalia. 



B. Tail plain brown with no bands : 



a'. Wing exceeding 7 in. M.rufipennis. 



b'. Wing under 6.5 in M.ruficeps. 



(48) MACROPYGIA TUSALIA (Hodg.). 



THE BAR-TAILED CUCKOO-DOVE. 

 (Plate 24.) 



Coccyzura tusalia Hodg., J.A.S.B., XII p. 937 (1843). 



Macropygia leptogrammica BljHih, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 809; id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., 

 p. 235 ; Oates, B. of Brit. Burma, II p. 295. 



Macropygia ttisalia Blyth, J.A.S.B., XII p. 936 ; Jerdon, B.I., III p. 473 ; 

 Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX pt. 2, p. 112; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 p. 500 ; Wald., in Blyth 's B. Burma, p. 146 ; Hume and Dav., Str. Feath., 

 VI p. 419; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110 ; id.. Cat. no. 791 ; id., Str. Feath., XI 

 p. 297 ; Oates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 362 ; Salvadori, 

 Cat. B.M., XXI p. 338 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 49 ; Sharpe, Hand- 

 List, I p. 73 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 91 ; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., 

 X p. 361 ; Osmaston, ib., XV p. 515 ; Stuart Baker, ib., XVII p. 971 ; 

 Mears, ib., XVIII p. 86 ; J. P. Cook, ib., XXI p. 675 ; Venning, ib., 

 p. 632; Robinson, ib., p. 261 ; Harington, B. Burma, p. 69; Robinson, 

 J.F.M.S. 1905, p. 54. 



Vernacular Names. Tusal, Nepalese ; Ea-er, Lepcha ; Daotukunt- 

 laima, Cachari. 



Description. — Adidt male. Fore-head, lores, cheeks, chin, and throat 

 buff, faintly tinged with lilac ; crown, hind-neck, and sides of neck behind 

 the ear-coverts metallic lilac-purple, this colour not contrasting with, but 

 changing gradually from, the buff of the face ; rest of upper-surface from 

 the back to the tail barred black and rufous, the black bars being boldest 

 on the upper tail-coverts and most narrow on the upper-back and shoulders 

 where they are overlaid with a beautiful green, purple, or copper-sheen, all 

 these tints being visible in certain lights and varyingly dominant in others. 

 Tail dark brownish-black, narrowly barred with rufous, the rufous disappearing 

 on the outermost rectrices, which are dark grey with a broad band of black 

 about one-third of their length from the tip ; the intermediate feathers are 



