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M. Levaillant met with it, near the rivers Swarte-kop and Sondag. 

 Many also have been brought from Senegal.'* In the vicinity of 

 Calcutta it is certainly rare, as the specimen above noticed was the 

 only recent one ever seen by the Society's taxidermists, who were 

 unaware of its existence in this part ; and it does not appear to be 

 commoner in peninsular India, but on the eastern side of the Bay of 

 Bengal it is more numerous, as likewise, I have reason to suspect, in 

 Nepal. With its note I am wholly unacquainted. 



The definition by Linnaeus of C. Coromandus is merely " caudd 

 cuneiformi, corpore nigro, subttts albo, torque candido ; saying no- 

 thing of the very conspicuous character of the rufous wings, nor of the 

 hardly less conspicuous fulvous throat of especially the male : various 

 other authors assign a small, round, grey spot on each side of the head 

 behind the eye, no trace of which is perceptible in six specimens 

 before me ; and likewise assert, that the throat as well as the thighs 

 are blackish, the latter only being more or less dusky in the specimens 

 I have seen. Analogy with C. edolius renders it probable, however, 

 that the young are here adverted to. 



The Ceylon Cuckoo of Latham ( Gen. Hist. Ill, 291,) must be 

 nearly allied. Length seventeen inches. Bill curved, black; general 

 colour above, and of the tail, fine blue black ; the head much crested ; 

 chin and throat dull yellow-ochre ; from this the rest of the under- 

 pays are white ; thighs pale ash-colour ; tail cuneiform, blue-black ; 

 its two middle feathers nine inches long, the others gradually much 

 shorter; legs blue, the hind claws curved, neither of them straight 

 nor subulated. Inhabits Ceylon. Mr. S. Daniell." 



17. C. edolius, Cuvier; C. ater and melanoleucos, Gmelin, — ser- 

 ratus, Sparrman ; le Coucou Edolio, Levaillant ; Le Jacobin huppe de 

 Coromandel, Buffon. (Pied Crested Cuckoo.) Length thirteen 

 inches, by seventeen inches and a half in extent of wings ; the latter 

 from bend five inches and three-quarters ; and middle tail-feathers seven 

 inches, the outermost three inches less : bill to forehead (through the 

 feathers) an inch and one-eighth, and to gape a trifle more; tarse 

 fifteen-sixteenths of an inch. Irides dark- coloured; bill black; and legs 

 bluish-leaden. Colour of the upper-parts uniform black, not very in- 

 tense, with a greenish shine, except the bases of the primaries which are 

 pure white, forming a conspicuous wing-spot: all the tail-feathers, 



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