168 Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. [No. 122. 



more yellowish- green ; edge and shoulder of the wing deep blue, and 

 its under surface marked with pale buff-yellow as in B. cyanops ; fore- 

 head and occiput crimson; the crown and throat bright glistening 

 orange : around the eye black, continued backward to the sides of 

 the occiput, where mixed with green : the ear-coverts were being 

 moulted in the specimen, but appear to be coming of a mixed green 

 and blue, and the feathers growing at the base of the lower mandible 

 are crimson. Bill dusky-black, whitish at base of lower mandible; 

 and legs evidently greenish, or a sort of lead-colour tinged with green, 

 as in B. cyanops: tail also, as in that species, verditer underneath. 

 From Darjeeling; and dedicated to Major James Franklin, F. R. S., &c, 

 a highly meritorious pioneer among the investigators of Indian Or- 

 nithology, whose still useful " Catalogue of Birds collected on the 

 Ganges between Calcutta and Benares, and in the Vindhyian hills 

 between the latter place and Gurra Mundela, on the Nurbudda," is 

 published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1835, pp. 1 14 

 to 125, and republished in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, I, 260 et 

 seq. 



7. Cuculus micropterus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 137. The 

 Bocuttdcko of Bengal, so named from its cry.* 



8. C. Sonneratii, Latham, Ind. Orn. II. 215 ; le petit Coucou des Indes, 

 Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. IV. 216; C. Himalayanus, Vigors, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1831, 172, Gould's Century, PI. LIV: all these notices referring 

 to the female. I have a monograph of the Indian Cuculidce in prepara- 

 tion, and therefore defer for the present what remarks I have to offer 

 on this and the preceding species. 



9. Trogon Hodgsonii? Gould (I have no description to refer to) : Tr. 

 fasciatus, Var. A., Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, III. 213 ; but having no 



white pectoral bar : marked female. Length nearly 13 inches, of wing 

 from bend 6 inches, and middle tail feathers 7|- inches, the outermost 

 3 inches shorter. Colour of the upper parts, neck and breast, deep chest- 

 nut-brown, darkest on the head, and brightening to the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; belly crimson : smaller wing-coverts and tertiaries externally, 

 finely undulated black and brown, the rest of the wing blackish with 



* The Asiatic Society has received this species from the Malay peninsula, and it 

 is included in Mr. Vigne's catalogue of his collection of birds procured in Kashmir 

 and Little Tibet, (Proc. Zool. Soc, January 26, 1841. ) 



