1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidos. 907 



founded with the present species. (Sonnerat's? Cuckoo.) The only 

 objection I can perceive to the propriety of referring a specimen before 

 me to the Little Indian Cuckoo of Sonnerat, is that, that author 

 states the bill, feet, and irides of his bird to be yellow, whereas in 

 the one here described the feet appear to have been dusky-plumbeous, 

 with at most a tinge of yellow, and the bill is wholly black, mixed 

 with whitish on the lower mandible. It resembles so much the fe- 

 male and young of the next species as to have been confounded with 

 them by so acute a discriminator as Mr. Jerdon ; but may, never- 

 theless, be readily distinguished from them by having the tarse half- 

 feathered, and by the greater length and stoutness of the bill, which 

 is also less compressed towards the tip. Probable length of the 

 recent specimen about nine inches and a half, of wing five inches and 

 one-eighth, and tail (the medial feathers being wanting) four inches 

 and one-eighth ; bill to forehead (through the feathers) above an inch, 

 and to gape an inch and one-eighth ; tarse three-quarters of an inch, 

 and externally feathered nearly to the toes. Another distinction from 

 the females and young of the next species consists in the whole under- 

 pays from the throat, being white, but very faintly tinged with fulvous 

 on the flanks, and marked throughout with numerous narrow dusky bars, 

 agreeing thus with the description given by M. Sonnerat ; the sides of 

 the head and neck are also white similarly barred, but the ear-coverts 

 are coloured like the back, and the frontal feathers white at base, 

 shewing conspicuously just over the bill ; upper-parts uniformly green- 

 ish-dusky, with numerous cross-bars of rufous, excepting on the 

 coverts of the primaries, while the latter have only an indication of 

 these bars on the extreme edge of their outer- webs. Of the tail only 

 two feathers exist in the specimen, which appear to belong respectively 

 to the second and third pair; their colour is rufous, with a broad 

 dusky bar near the end, the external webs almost wholly dusky, with 

 traces of rufous barring on the extreme edge, more conspicuous 

 towards the base, and fragments of numerous other bars on the inner 

 web ; its two external feathers are also seen, on turning up the rump 

 plumage, to be growing, and what appears of them is rufous with a 

 whitish tip, a dusky outer web and subterminal broad bar, with other 

 narrower bars on the inner web. The body-plumage had recently 

 been renewed, and I judge the specimen to be a mature female, and 



