1842.] Malayan species of Cuculidce. 1097 



Next in order ranges a remarkable form, which combines the gene- 

 ral contour and short and curved inner hind-claw of the preceding, 

 with the beak (and, in at least one instance, the spinous plumage) of 

 the Coucals (Centropus). It is the Zanclostomus of Mr. Swainson. 



27. Z. Javanicus: Phamicophceus Javanicus, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. 

 XIII, pt. I. p. 178, and figured in the Zoological Researches in Java; 

 Coccyzus rubrirostris, Drapiez, Diet. Class. a 1 ' Hist. Nat. IV, 558; 

 C. chrysogasler, Temminck, apud Horsfield, " Catalogue of Javanese 

 Birds" prefixed to Zoological Researches in Java ; Chalybeate Cuckoo, 

 Latham, Gen. Hist. Ill, 304, but not the Var. A." appended to this.* 

 (Bay-breasted Sirkeer.) " Entire length eighteen inches, nearly 

 eleven of which are occupied by the middle tail-feathers. The upper 

 parts generally are greenish-gray, having a metallic lustre, which 

 is stronger on the upper part of the tail, and on the extremity of 

 the wings, where the tint is saturated inclining to black. The head 

 is of a lighter tint, inclining to plumbeous, and without any lustre ; 

 having a small naked mamillary space surrounding the eyes. The 

 base of the bill is surrounded with vibrissa, straggling, and pointing 

 forward and backward. The cheeks, the throat, the neck anteriorly, 

 the vent, and the thighs, have a ferruginous-chestnut tint, which 

 on the latter is darker, inclining to rufous ; the lower part of the 

 breast and the abdomen have the plumbeous colour of the head more 

 diluted, and slightly variegated with chestnut. The bill is red and 

 shining; the naked space about the eyes yellowish, and the feet are 

 black. About half an inch of the extremity of the tail-feathers is 

 tipped with white : and the irides have also a whitish hue. 



" This bird is found in the society of different Coucals, at the con- 

 fines of large forests, in plains covered with low shrubs and solitary 

 trees. It resembles the Phrenotrix Temia \_Crypsirina varians~\ 

 in its habits and manners. The shortness of its wing permits only 

 of interrupted flights. It is not found in great abundance in Java 

 being chiefly observed about noon, and it is remarkable for the beauty 



* " Length sixteen inches. Bill long, rather bent, and black ; plumage above brown; 

 spurious wing white ; beneath, with the under wing-coverts, from the breast to the vent, 

 pale rufous ; quills and inner webs white, from the base to the middle ; tail cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers four inches long [evidently a mistake], the outer one two 

 inches and a half, all of them tipped with white, and the inner webs barred with the 

 same." Very doubtful as appertaining to the present genus. 



