1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidm. 909 



and the forehead— which also is nearly devoid of the green ; chin and 

 throat cinereous ; breast the same but darker, banded with rufous and 

 white; the belly pale cinereous, faintly marked with pale rufous and 

 white ; under tail-coverts and tail as in the first." One procured near 

 Calcutta, from which the admeasurements here given were taken, agrees 

 nearly with the last, and exactly with a specimen sent by Mr. Jerdon : 

 irides brownish-red, the orbits dusky; bill also dusky, with merely a 

 dull yellowish tinge at the base of the lower mandible; inside of 

 the mouth carneous deeply tinged with coral ; feet olivaceous, tinged 

 with yellow underneath. Upper-parts wholly dusky-cinereous, with 

 a greenish gloss, except on the head and rump; throat, breast and 

 belly, somewhat lighter cinereous; the vent, under tail-coverts, and 

 greater part of the exterior webs of the outermost upper tail-coverts, 

 white; tail blackish, its outer feathers successively more broadly tip- 

 ped with white, and the inner webs of the two outermost feathers on 

 each side barred with the same. A specimen casting off the nestling 

 livery has the new growing feathers of its under-parts a dull ruddy- 

 brown colour without markings, including the belly and under tail- 

 coverts, while those of the head and back are greenish-glossed dusky- 

 cinereous, as in the last preceding adults. The gloss of the upper-parts 

 of this young bird, as also the colour of the irides of the glossed Bengal 

 specimen before described, together with the analogy of C. micropterus, 

 (the second brownish plumage of which is much bronzed, while little 

 or no trace of this exists in dark ash-coloured specimens,) indicates 

 that the glossless uniform dark ashy examples of the present species 

 are also in fully mature plumage, the glossed being younger birds. 

 A specimen, which I infer to be an old female, agrees in dimensions : 

 all the upper-parts are bright rufous, barred with broader dusky bands 

 than in younger birds, having a greenish shine, and which are obsolete 

 on the occiput and rump, and nearly so on the upper tail-coverts ; pri- 

 maries wholly dusky-brown, with slight rufous edges towards their base 

 only, these being more developed on the secondaries; tail rufous, its 

 medial feathers marked along the shaft with dusky, and the rest shewing 

 fragments of dark bars, and a broader subterminal dusky band, with a 

 white spot at the tip ; sides of the neck rufous, the throat, fore-neck, and 

 breast, much stained with the same, and more or less crossed with un~ 



