390 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



Horsfield. The M. rubecula, Swainson, would appear rather to be 

 the female of C. Tickellice, Nobis, than of C. banyumas, in which case 

 the name rubecula must stand for the former. 



P. 944. Chrysococcyx lucidus has now been also received from 

 Arracan : and I have just seen a fine adult from the hilly district of 

 Monghyr, in Bengal. 



P. 945. Centropus dimidiatus, Nobis. Lately received from Cut- 

 tack, and may yet probably turn out to be the final plumage of 

 C. lepidus. 



Phcenicophaus lucidus, Vigors, " described in Lady Raffles' Memoir, 

 p. 671/' is identical, as I am informed by Dr. Horsfield, with the 

 species No. 18 of my Monograph of eastern Cuculidce, XI, 923, and 

 XII, 246.* 



* Mr. Strickland has favored me by examining certain specimens of Cuculida in 

 London, and otherwise aided in reducing the synonyms of the group. "The Cucu- 

 lusflaviventris, Scop., v. radiatus, Gm," (vide XI, 900), he informs me, "is a good 

 species. I have a specimen from Malacca, exactly agreeing with Sonnerat's descrip- 

 tion, except that the tail is not even, but very slightly rounded, with the outermost 

 pair of feathers an inch and a quarter shorter than the rest. It is of the size of 

 C. fugax, the beak rather more slender." (Can it be the C. tenuirostris, Lesson, 

 referred by me to C. fugax, vide XII, 943 1 In such case, it would doubtless have 

 been confounded with C. fugax.) Of the Javanese specimen referred to C. canorus 

 by Dr. Horsfield (vide XI, 902), Mr. Strickland writes — " Apparently the same as 

 the European, but I had not a European one to compare with it at the time. It is 

 not the micropterus, nor the fugax, both of which are at the India House. — C. pravata, 

 Horsfield,=C. Sonneratii, Lath.,=C. rufovittatus, Drapiez" (XI, 906, 911). "I have 

 seen many specimens from Malacca, all in the same plumage, but I never saw any 

 adult-looking bird to which it could be referred. It has a broader beak thaD any 

 other Cuckoo of the same size. — Cue. lugubris is, 1 suspect, the same as dicruroides. 

 I have a forked-tailed one with the wing four inches and three-quarters long, and an 

 even-tailed one from Malacca with the wings five inches and a quarter, being the re- 

 verse of the supposed distinctions between them." To this (vide also XII, 244), I 

 may remark, that several Malayan specimens which I have seen have all been smaller 

 than the Indian ones ; and the same relation holds between the Malayan C.flavus 

 (of which C. pyrogaster, Vieillot, /. A. S- XI, 912, is probably a synonym,) and the 

 Indian bird which I referred to C. niger (XI > 908, XII f 940 et seq., 944), but which 

 1 now think cannot be the C. niger, Lath., founded on the " Black Indian Cuckoo" 

 of Edwards, which, if his figure and description can be depended upon, would seem 

 to be a small species of Coel (Eudynarnys) ; though in that case I should doubt its 

 occurrence in Bengal. Of Eudynarnys, too, I must remark that the Australian Coe'l, 

 referred to Eu. orientalis by Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield (vide XI, 913), is consider- 

 ed distinct by Mr. Swainson, who styles it Eu. australis (' Menag.', p. 344), and 



