798 Asiatic Society, [No. 128. 



have the colours less iatense. The immature plumage has no rufous on the head, 

 neck and breast, which are dull grey-brown, and the bars on the under-parts are 

 much less defined ; throat whitish. 



In the suite of the foregoing Malayan species, I now proceed to describe a mag- 

 nificent Podargus, which appears to be the Bombycistoma Fullertonii of Capt. Hay 

 (J. A. S. X, 573J, though not minutely agreeing in all respects with the description 

 furnished by that gentleman. It is the species mentioned in one of my reports, 

 ante, p. 106, and there is reason to suspect that the specimen was obtained in the 

 Malay peninsula. 



Podargus Fullertonii (?). Length about sixteen inches, of wing ten inches and a 

 quarter, and tail eight inches, its two outermost feathers successively much shorter ; 

 bill to gape two inches and a half, and the same broad at base, its vertical height 

 at base about five-eighths of an inch; tarse seven-eighths of an inch. Colour different 

 shades of fine rich rufous-brown, with a banded whitish half-collar at the nape, 

 and very remarkable elongated white spatulate tips to the wing-coverts, laterally 

 margined with black, each being prolonged beyond the dark portion of the feather, 

 and curling upward so as to rise from the even surface of the wing, with the fine 

 dark ferruginous-brown of which they contrast strongly: quills and tail less deep 

 ferruginous-brown, banded with a still paler tint, which is slightly bordered with 

 blackish; scapularies and tertiaries having each a terminal black spot; interscapularies 

 dark, and but indistinctly mottled : crown brown, with little or no rufous tinge, 

 and a subterminal irregular whitish streak, bordered with black, to each plume: 

 feathers of the nuchal collar lengthened and fulvous-brown, rayed with dusky-black, 

 and having a subterminal broad fulvous-white transverse band, which is also edged with 

 black both above and below : under-parts comparatively dull ferruginous brown, with 

 small whitish spots on the breast, and faint mottling ; the belly paler ; and lower 

 tail-coverts whitish banded with light brown ; ear-coverts rufous-tinged, and a pale 

 streak over the eye becoming more conspicuous beyond it. Bill and feet brown, the 

 former whitish towards the gape. 



Capt. Hay's second species is probably the Podargus stellatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 

 1837, p. 43, being received from Malacca, whereas Mr. Gould's specimen was obtained 

 from Java. His third species appears to be an Eurylaimus with which I am unac- 

 quainted. 



The Podargus Javanicus, Horsfield, already noticed by Mr. Eyton as inhabiting 

 the Malay Peninsula, likewise occurs, as 1 have been informed by Mr. Jerdon, 

 in Southern India, that gentleman having received " a very accurate description" of 

 the species, drawn up from a specimen killed in Coorg. It is rather an unexpected 

 addition to the Ornithology of India. 



The more interesting species which I have lately procured in this neighbourhood are 

 as follow: — 



Cuculus micropterus. 



C. niger, Latham, v. C. Bengalensis niger, Brisson ; of which the middle-aged 

 female is C. tenuirostris of Hardwicke and Gray, and the adult male is the doubtfully 

 cited C.Mavus of Mr. Jerdon's list : a mature male. 



Cypselus affinis, Gray : very abundant at all seasons. C. palmarum is less so, and 

 no other species are met with in this vicinity. Of Swallows (Hirundo), 1 have never 



