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of its form." (Horspield.) This species has also been received from 

 Borneo, and from the Malay peninsula ; the presumed female differing 

 in having the breast-patch brownish instead of plumbeous. 



28. Z. Calorenchus (calorhynchus ?J; Phcenicophceus calorenchus, 

 Temminck, Col. 347. (Red-headed Sirkeer). Thus briefly no- 

 ticed in Griffith's English edition of Cuvier's Regne Animal, VII, 

 465, and there placed next to the preceding species. te Black ; head and 

 neck, red ; crown, iron-grey ; bill yellow, red, and black" — the admix- 

 ture of the last perhaps an indication of immaturity. Inhabits Java-. 

 £** £ 29. Z. Sirkee, Jerdon : Eudynamys (I) Sirkee, Hardwicke and 



Gray; Sirkeer Cuckoo, Latham, Gen. Hist. Ill, 267; Centropus 

 cuculoides, C. W. Smith, J. A. S., X, 659, (Indian Sirkeer). 

 The only specimen of this I have to describe from is probably a 

 female, rather small in its dimensions, with the buff plumage of the 

 under-parts almost confined to the lower part of the breast. Length 

 about fifteen inches, of which the middle tail-feathers measure nine 

 inches, and the outermost two inches and a half less ; wing six 

 inches ; bill to forehead (through the feathers) an inch and a quarter, 

 and an inch and a half to gape, its greatest vertical depth seven- 

 sixteenths of an inch ; tarse above an inch and a half. General hue 

 of the upper parts ashy-brown, with a gloss of green, the shafts of the 

 feathers dark-coloured and spinous, more especially on the head, neck, 

 and breast: under parts paler, slightly tinged with fulvous on the 

 throat and fore-neck ; the lower part of the breast, with the thighs, 

 wholly fulvous or buff; vent and lower tail-coverts dusky glossed 

 with green ; the middle pair of tail-feathers coloured like the back, 

 and the rest successively darker and more largely tipped with white : 

 on the tertiaries, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers, are numerous 

 cross-rays which appear or not according as the light falls on them : bill 

 coral-red, tipped with yellow, and some black at the lateral margin of 

 the upper mandible. Mr. Jerdon describes the bill of the fresh bird, 

 as " cherry-red yellowish at tip ; feet plumbeous ; irides reddish- 

 brown. Length sixteen to seventeen inches ; wing six inches and a 

 quarter; tail nine inches and a half." The entire under-parts are 

 represented uniform fulvous in Hardwicke and Gray's figure ; and the 

 black remaining on the sides of the upper mandible in the specimen 

 before me (presented by Mr. Jerdon) is doubtless a sign of nonage. 



