1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidce. 899 



of wing eight inches and a half; and middle tail feathers eight inches, the 

 outermost an inch and a quarter shorter; bill to forehead (through the 

 feathers) an inch and one-sixteenth, and to gape an inch and a quar- 

 ter; tarse seven-eighths of an inch. General hue of the upper-parts 

 (in the specimen before me) a bronzed dark brown, but slightly tinged 

 with ashy, though I think it probable that older birds would be grey- 

 er : crown, occiput, and sides of the upper-part of the neck, very dark 

 ash-colour ; the sides and front of the lower-part of the neck bright 

 ferruginous, marked a little with dark ash, and white at the bases of 

 the feathers ; chin dark ashy, the throat white streaked with the same, 

 mingled with rufous; lores also whitish: under-parts from the breast 

 fulvescent- white, transversely streaked with dusky, but the vent and 

 lower tail-coverts pure white, with one or two dark bands on only the 

 longest feathers of the latter : tail of a paler brown than the back, and 

 crossed with five dark bars, one of them basal, another subterminal 

 (which is very broad), the extreme tip being whitish, and the penulti- 

 mate dark bar much narrower than the others ; the space immediately 

 bordering the dark bars beyond them being paler than the rest and 

 rufescent : primaries and secondaries obscurely marked on their outer 

 webs with narrow bars of dull pale fulvous, and on their inner webs 

 banded with white internally. Bill dusky horn-colour, with some yel- 

 low on the lower mandible; " the irides and feet both pale gamboge- 

 yellow, the feet with a slight buff tinge" (Jerdon). A young specimen 

 has all the upper-parts transversely barred with rufous, except the 

 crown which is dark ashy without markings: under-parts fulvous- 

 white, each leather having a mesial blackish streak: there are six dark 

 bands upon the tail, and the rufous colour bordering them is more 

 developed than in the adult : the head and throat are nearly as in the 

 mature plumage. 



Both this and the next species are included in the catalogue of 

 Dr. Royle's birds procured at Saharunpore and in the Himalaya, as 

 migratory, appearing in March; and the present would seem to be 

 chiefly a mountain species. I have not yet met with it in Bengal, 

 but Mr. Jerdon has lately procured two specimens in peninsular 

 India, from which I have drawn up the foregoing descriptions. Of its 

 particular habits and notes I can say nothing. 



2. C.fugax, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 178; Bhrou (i. e. burra 



