912 A Monograph of the Indian and [No. 130. 



8. C. flavus, Gmelin : le petit Coucou de Vlsle Panay, Sonnerat, 

 Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee, p. 122 ; le petit Coucou a tete grise, et 

 ventre jaune, Buffon, Hist. Nat., Ois. VI, 382. So far as an opinion 

 can be formed from Sonnerat's figure of this species, I incline to 

 regard it as nearly allied to the preceding one; but the tarsi are 

 doubtless represented much too long, and they are figured to be 

 naked, as in C. niger. Length (apud Buffon) about nine inches, 

 of which the tail measures more than half, and is of a wedge shape. 

 Upper part of the head and throat light grey ; the nape, back and 

 wings, pale umbre-brown ; belly, thighs, and lower tail-coverts, pale 

 yellow tinged with russet ; and the tail black, barred with white. 

 Bill and feet light yellow, the former tipped with black. A female is 

 described by Sir Stamford Raffles to have " the tail barred with 

 brownish-yellow instead of white, and the grey extending to the 

 breast. The nostrils are perfectly round and tubular, their edge form- 

 ing a prominent ring. Found at Pulo Penang :" also in the island 

 of Panay, and very abundant in Java, and doubtless in the Malay 

 countries generally ; frequenting the plains and cultivated tracts, 

 where, in Java (according to Dr. Horsfield), " it is heard in the morn- 

 ing from almost every tall tree. It has three distinct notes, which 

 it repeats in great regularity with a loud but not unpleasant voice, 

 although by many natives it is considered ominous of evil." 



9. C. ( Eudynamys ? J honoratus, Lin ; Cuil, v. Coucou tachete de 

 Malabar, Buffon, and figured in Shaw's Zoology, IX, 104 : identified, 

 according to Levaillant, with his African Coucou Tachirou, Oiseaux 

 d'Afrique, pi. 216, apud Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., IV, 569. This 

 manifestly appertains to the Coel section, differing from the common 

 Coel in being much smaller, in having a still more graduated 

 tail, &c. : what is probably the livery of the female and young appears 

 to be the only one described in the books to which I have access. 



vif chez le male ; elle a le sommet de la tete cendre, la gorge et les cotes du cou teints 

 de fauve, et toutes les parties inferieures rayees de noiratre. De Java. 



" C. pyrogaster, Vieillot. Taille huit pouces, six lignes. Parties superieures d'un 

 brun bronze, rayees transversalement de fauve; sommet de la tete tirant surle cendre; 

 remiges intermediares dentelees de fauve, les laterales de blanc ; toutes etagees et 

 terminees de blanc ; gorge, dessous du cou, poitrine et ventre d'un fauve pale, rayes 

 transversalement de brun^et de blanc; bee noir, brunatre a sa base en dessous ; pieds 

 rougeatres." 



