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P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105 ; Bubutus Isidorei, Lesson, figured in one of 

 the plates to Bellinger's Voyage, as I am informed by Mr. Jerdon. 

 Length twelve inches and a half, of wing four inches and a half, and 

 middle tail-feathers seven inches, the outermost three inches and a 

 half less; bill to forehead an inch and one-eighth, and to gape an 

 inch and three-eighths ; tarse fifteen-sixteenths of an inch. Colour of 

 the upper-parts bright rufous-chestnut, except the head and neck 

 which are pure light grey, together with the breast; the rest of the 

 lower parts tinged with ferruginous, the flanks and lower tail- coverts 

 coloured as above ; volar feathers of the wings tipped with dusky, 

 more developed on the primaries, and all the tail feathers tipped with 

 white and subterminally with black ; the legs appear to have been 

 bluish. I am unaware whence the Society's specimen of this bird was 

 obtained, but the species is included in Mr. Eyton's catalogue of 

 a collection of birds from the Malay Peninsula, under the denomina- 

 tion cited,* 



19. Rh. chlorophaa: Cuculus chlorophceus, Raffles, Lin. Trans. 

 XIII, pt. II, p. 228; probably cited as C. chlorocephalus, Raffles, 

 P. Z. S. 1839, 105; Coccyzus badius, J. E. Gray, and Anadcenus 

 rufus, Swainson, apud G. R. Gray (List of the Genera of Birds, 

 first edit., p. 56). Length, of the largest specimen before me, thirteen 

 inches and a half, of wing four inches and a half, and middle tail- 

 feathers seven inches, the outermost three inches and three-quarters 

 less; bill to forehead an inch and three-sixteenths, and to gape an 

 inch and three-eighths ; and tarse an inch. Colour of the upper-parts 

 bright rufous-chestnut, as in the preceding species, and the volar fea- 

 thers of the wings similarly tipped with dusky; but the head, neck 

 and breast, are bright ferruginous, paler on the throat, the belly 

 tinged with fuscous, and under tail-coverts blackish: tail and its 

 upper coverts wholly dusky-black, the former tipped with white, and 

 both crossed with numerous rays of a paler colour. The legs, accord- 

 ing to Raffles, are bluish ; and the naked space round the eyes of the 



* The Cuculus melanogaster, Vieillot, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. IV, 570, would 

 seem to be allied. u Taille, quinze-pounces. Parties superieures ferrugineuses ; som- 

 met de la tete cendre ; rectrices longues, etagees, noires et terminees de blanc; gorge, 

 devant du cou, et poitrine, roussatres ; parties inferieures noires : de Java." The 

 plumage would thus appear to be intermediate to that of Rh. rufescens (?J and of Rh. 

 chlorophtea. 



