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if they are to be found in India further northwest than Bengal.' ' 

 Certainly no figure of it occurs in the late Sir A. Burnes's collection 

 of drawings of the birds inhabiting the Indus territory, which is 

 tolerable proof of at least its rarity on the banks of that river. In 

 Burmah, China, and the Malay countries generally, it is very abun- 

 dant. 



31. C. viridis : Polophilus viridis, Shaw; Cuculus Mgyptius, var. 

 y 9 Latham, Ind. Orn. I. 213. Le Coucou Verd d'Antigue (of the 

 Philippines), Sonnerat, Voyage a la Nouvelle Guine'e, p. 121. (Green 

 Coucal.) Described as nearly of the size of the European Cuckoo, 

 The head, neck, breast and belly, obscure deep green, verging upon 

 black ; the wings of a deep reddish-brown ; and tail long and black : 

 bill black ; and feet tinged with the same. Irides black (?). Plumage 

 generally rigid, with the barbs of the feathers disunited (Sonnerat). 

 Apparently much allied to the last species, but of inferior size, and 

 differing somewhat in its colouring. 



32. C. lepidus, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, pt. 1, p. 180 : Cuculus 

 Tolu, apud Raffles, Ibid, pt. II, p. 285. (Pale-breasted Coucal.) 

 In the catalogue of Javanese birds prefixed to his Zoological Re- 

 searches in Java, Dr. Horsfield marks this species as "to be cancell- 

 ed"; yet in his enumeration of the species procured by Dr. McClelland 

 in Assam, this name for one of them is retained, with the remark, 

 that " Mr. McClelland's specimen is comparatively of a large size, but 

 agrees in all particulars with the Cent, lepidus of Java." (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 166.) Now, in a note to the Researches in Java, 

 the same naturalist writes — " I consider this small group to consist 

 of the following species, agreeably to M. Cuvier's arrangement, as 

 given in the Regne Animal, I. 426, in the note: — 1. Cuculus 

 Egyptius and Senegalensis, which are united by M. Cuvier, — 2. 

 C. Phillipensis, Cuv., — 3. C. nigrorufus, Cuv., — 4. C. Tolu," (which 

 is far from being a complete enumeration of the extra-Indian 

 species now well ascertained) ; and it may be, therefore, that at 

 the period of writing this, Dr. Horsfield followed Sir Stamford 

 Raffles in considering lepidus as identical with Tolu, and certainly 

 the description of the latter accords so nearly with a specimen before 

 me, that I should not be surprised at their being identical, though, if 

 so, it is remarkable that Dr. Horsfield should formerly have marked 



