1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidaz. 923 



where the Accentor modular is, for example, is styled ' Hedge Sparrow.' 

 Dr. Latham informs us, that it is said to lay its eggs in the nest of 

 the Chattoreah (Malacocercus Chatarcea), and that they are plain 

 greenish in colour ; the Cuckoo said generally to destroy those of the 

 Thrush, when it deposits its own" : this at least is true of the European 

 Cuckoo ( C. canorus), whence any eggs that may be found in the 

 same nest with the Cuckoo's egg, have been laid subsequently to the 

 introduction of the latter. The C. Vaillantii before noticed, according 

 to Latham, inhabits India, a figure of it being among the drawings of 

 Gen. Hardwicke ; but I greatly suspect there must be some mistake 

 in this. 



In the Pied Crested Cuckoo, it may be remarked that the third pri- 

 mary is very nearly equal to the fourth, and exceeds the fifth ; whereas 

 in the Red- winged species ( ' Coromandus), the third is considerably 

 shorter than the fifth. With the Crested Cuckoos terminates the 

 genus Cuculus, in its most extended signification, agreeable to modern 

 notions of arrangement ; and I next pass to the consideration of the 

 Malkohas (Phcenicophceus), an extensive group generally characteriz- 

 ed by having a somewhat large, green-coloured bill, having the 

 nostrils basal, and placed near the edge of the upper mandible, — a 

 coloured bare space round the eye, more or less developed, — distinct 

 eye-lashes, in general, but rudimental only in the subgenus Rhi- 

 northa,—*. longer tarse than in the Cuckoos, but the toes similarly 



formed for arboreal habits, — short and rounded wings, of which the 



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 sixth primary is usually longest, the fifth, sixth, and seventh being 



nearly equal — and a broad and much graduated tail, sometimes of 

 great length. 

 Among them, the most distinct subgenus is that of 

 Rhinortha, Vigors, (1830), v. Anadoenus, Swainson, (1837): 

 Straight-billed Malkohas : — wherein the clothing plumage has 

 disunited webs, and the bill is straight, tapering regularly to the 

 end, where the tip of the upper mandible curves somewhat abruptly 

 to overhang that of the lower one. The size of these birds is inferior 

 to that of most of the others ; and I am not aware that any occur to 

 the westward of the Bay of Bengal. 



18. Rh. rufescens ( ? ); Anadoenus ru/escens (?J, Swainson, menti- 

 oned in Class. Birds, II., 324 ; Phcenicophceus viridirostris, Eyton, 



