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A Monograph of the Indian and Malayan species of Cuculidce, or 

 Birds of the Cuckoo family. By Edward Blyth, Curator of the 

 Asiatic Society. 



[Continued from p. 9'28.] 



25. Ph. longicaudatus, Nobis, J. A. S., X, 923; perhaps Ph. 

 Crawfurdii, Gray, mentioned in Mr. Ey ton's catalogue of a collec- 

 lection of Malayan birds, P. Z. S., 1839, p. 105; or it may be the 

 Melias Diardi of Lesson, which I have reason to suspect is allied. 

 (Long-tailed Malkoha.) Length of a fine specimen twenty-three 

 inches, of which the middle tail-feathers occupy sixteen inches and 

 three quarters, the outermost ten inches less; wing six inches, the 

 tertiaries overpassing the primaries half an inch more ; bill to forehead 

 (through the feathers) nearly an inch and three-eighths, and an 

 inch and a half to gape; tarse nearly an inch and three- eighths. 

 General colour dark greenish-grey; the wings and tail shining dark 

 green, with a white tip to each tail-feather; front of the neck and 

 breast, paler, passing into whitish on the throat and immediately around 

 the naked space encircling the eye, these whitish feathers having 

 dark shafts, which terminate in a slightly prolonged hair-like bristle; 

 small anterior portion of the lores black, and the bare orbital space 

 moderately developed, and papillose. Beak bright green, and legs 

 apparently have been greenish. This bird is common in the Tenas- 

 serim provinces, and always seen in pairs. It would appear also 

 to be not rare in Nepal, and from the M. S. name monticolus ap- 

 plied to it by Mr. Hodgson, may be presumed to affect upland 

 forests. Should it be the Ph. Crawfurdii of Mr. Gray, of which I 

 have seen no description, it would also inhabit the Malay pen- 

 insula. 



26. Ph. Jerdoni, Nobis : Xanclostomus viridirostris, Jerdon, Madr. 

 Journ. XI, 223, — not Ph. viridirostris, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 105, which is the Rhinortha rufescens (?) of this Monograph. 

 (Fork-feathered Malkoha.) Length about fifteen inches, of which 

 the tail is nine inches, its outermost feathers four inches and a quarter 

 less ; wing five inches and three-eighths ; bill to forehead (through 

 the feathers) an inch and one-eighth, and to gape an inch and a 



