1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidce. 919 



of Sir Stamford Raffles, is mentioned as a " native of the Malay 

 peninsula"; and the specimens here described are from that country 

 and (I believe) Tenasserim. 



14. C chalcites, Temminck, PL Col. CII, fig. 2; C. basalts, Horsfield, 

 Lin, Trans. XIII., 179. I copy the following description from Shaw's 

 Zoology, XIV., 209. " Length rather more than five inches and half 

 [six inches, Horsfield], the male having the top of the head red, with 

 a bronzed gloss ; the back and wings plain metallic green, the tail 

 above red at its base, a little shaded with green in the middle, and 

 white at its tips, the two lateral feathers having large oval white spots 

 on their inner webs : the fore-part of the neck and the breast are 

 whitish, varied with brown ; the belly is white ; the under tail-co- 

 verts whitish spotted with bronzed green ; the tarse long and naked 

 \_ ?]. The female is reddish above, very slightly shaded with bronze, 

 and white beneath." 



From analogy I should judge that the female and young, rather 

 than the mature male and female, are here described. This species) 

 inhabits Java and Australia, The identity of C. basalts and C. chalcites 

 is stated by Dr. Horsfield in the ' General Catalogue of Javanese 

 Birds/ prefixed to his Zoological Researches in Java, where also we 

 are informed that C. pravata, Horsf., briefly described in Lin, Trans, 

 XIII., 179, is "to be cancelled " 



15. C. xanthorhynchos, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, 179, — Jav. 

 Res., with a coloured figure. (Amethystine Cuckoo.) Length six 

 inches and half, of wing four inches, and tail three inches, its outer- 

 most feather half an inch shorter; bill to forehead (through the feathers 

 eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and tarse half an inch. Colour of the upper- 

 parts and breast brilliant amethystine-violet, with dull dark margins to 

 the body-feathers slightly glossed with green ; beneath white, barred 

 across with dark green ; outermost caudal feathers having five white 

 bars, the last terminal, and the two basal not extending to the inner 

 web ; the next two feathers on each side are tipped with white, and 

 the penultimate have rudiments of other white bars ; rest of the same 

 splendid colour as the back: bill wholly yellow, and much less thick 

 than represented in Dr. Horsfield's plate ; and feet apparently dusky : 

 the crown is very slightly crested. Inhabits Java, where stated to be 

 rare and very shy. Dr. Heifer mentions its existence, also, in the 



