1841.] Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 657 



138. Fam. Cuculid^. 

 Genus Cuculus, Auctorum. 

 Sp. C. Edolius, — Edolio Cuckoo. 

 Chinese collection. 



I shot a specimen on the banks of the Ganges below Rajmahal ; and 

 saw several others. I have never seen it in Bengal or Orissa. It is 

 figured and described in Mr. Smith's notes, but he does not state 

 its locality. 



Edolio Cuckoo. Stephens' Shaw's Zool. IX. 114. 



Cuculus Edolius. GrifF. Cuv. VII. 455. 



139. Cuculus Coromandus. — Collared Cuckoo. 



In the original collection. 



Collared Cuckoo. Lath. III. 292. 



Cuculus Coromandus. Stephens' Shaw's Zool. XIV. 208. Griffith's 

 Cuv. V. 455. 



140. Cuculus . 



Presented by Mr. C. W. Smith, from the Java collection. 



141,142. Cuculus . Metallic Cuckoo. 



Chinese collection. 



This appears to be Latham's Metalline Cuckoo, described in the 

 General History, III. 301. 



143. Genus Eudynamys. 

 Sp. Eu. Orientalis. — The Coel. 



Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 



The Coel is common in every part of India. It is to be found in 

 every thick tree, and in the hot weather, is a pest of no ordinary na- 

 ture; uttering incessantly the cry from whence its name is taken, 

 *' coel," " coel," or " cokeel, cokeel," with a liquid intonation of the /. 

 It continues this cry, loud enough to be heard several hundred 

 yards, from morning to night ; and indeed from night to morning al- 

 most, for I have heard it at 10 o'clock at night, and at 2 in the morn- 

 ing. Latham describes this cry as cheerful and pleasant, but had he 

 heard it he would have thought differently ; it is melancholy and mo- 

 notonous, and wearisome to the listener beyond measure. During the 

 day other noises go to drown it, but at night, and especially early in 



