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Tenasserim provinces, and it is probable that the Asiatic Society's 

 specimen was thence obtained. 



Subgenus Oxylophus, Swainson. (Crested Cuckoos.) These 

 have bare tarsi, and the occipital feathers lengthened to form a 

 considerable crest: the wings shorter and less pointed than in the 

 preceding, having the fourth primary (instead of the third) more 

 or less the longest : they are never barred or mottled at any age ; and 

 are mostly green-glossed black above, and whitish beneath, sometimes 

 varied with other colours. I know of nothing peculiar in their habits. 



16. C. Coromandus, Auctorum. I can hardly reconcile the conflict- 

 ing descriptions of this species without some suspicion that two have 

 been confounded under the name. That with which I am acquainted, 

 as occurring in Bengal, Nepal, Tenasserim, and which is also the 

 C. Coromandus of Mr. Jerdon's list (Madr. Journ. XI, 222), is 

 well described by Latham, Gen. Hist. Ill, 292, and may be distinc- 

 tively term'ed the Red-winged Crested Cuckoo. A male I pro- 

 cured measured fourteen inches and a half long, by eighteen inches 

 and a half in spread of wing ; the latter from bend six inches and three- 

 eighths, and middle tail-feathers eight inches and a half, the outer- 

 most four inches and a half shorter ; but the tail is generally some- 

 what longer than this, its middle feathers not uncommonly measuring 

 ten inches and a half; bill to forehead (through the feathers) an inch 

 one-eighth, and to gape an inch and a quarter ; tarse an inch, 

 being a little feathered towards the knee. Irides dark hazel : orbits 

 dusky; bill black ; the inside of the mouth dull coral-red; feet lead- 

 coloured. Upper-parts, comprising the scapularies and tertiaries, with 

 the tail, black glossed with green, paler on the tertiaries, and less gloss- 

 ed on the head ; the longest occipital feathers exceeding an inch and a 

 half: a conspicuous half collar of white encircles the nape : wings invari- 

 ably deep ferruginous, the tips of the primaries and secondaries dusky : 

 under-parts white, a little tinged with fulvous, excepting the lower 

 tail-coverts which are green-black, and the throat and fore-neck, 

 which in some are deep ochreous-fulvous, in others (probably females) 

 a very light fulvous, deepening laterally. The wings of the presumed 

 females are scarcely less deep in colour than in the males. 



Dr. Latham remarks, that " the above is found not only on the 

 coast of Coromandel, but also on the south coast of Africa, where 



