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length of the wing affords a ready distinction between these two close- 

 ly allied species, being in both specimens of lugubris but four inches 

 and three-quarters, while in six specimens of dicruroides before me it 

 averages five inches and a half (a mere trifle more or less). 



Subgenus Chrysococcyx. There is a Iampromorpha amethystna 

 described by Vigor sin P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98, from Manilla; but it 

 does not appear in what it differs from Chr. xanclorhynchos. 



Eudynamys orientalis : the Coel. I am indebted to Mr. Frith for 

 an egg of this species, found in the nest of Corvus macrorhynchos, to- 

 gether with one egg of that species. As the egg of Cuculus canorus 

 bears a general resemblance in colour to those of the small ground- 

 building birds in the nests of which it is most frequently deposited, so 

 does the CoeTs egg bear a marvellous resemblance to that of the Crow, 

 being, however, much smaller. The specimen measures an inch and a 

 half in lengh, and its colour is slightly bluish olive-green, rather pale 

 than otherwise, with numerous reddish-brown spots (much as in some 

 Blackbirds' eggs), and an indistinct zone of these near the large end. 

 Mr. Frith has never found more than one CoeTs egg in a nest, and has 

 only met with it in those of the two Indian Crows. He has repeated- 

 ly seen the common Crow ( Corvus splendensj attack and drive off 

 the female Coel from its neighbourhood, and in one instance observed 

 the latter, while trying to escape the pursuit, dash itself against a pane 

 of glass in an out-house with so much force as to fall dead from the 

 injury it received, the bill and fore-part of the head being quite smash- 

 ed. I may add that the young nestling Coel, more especially the male, 

 bears no small resemblance to a young Crow, i. e. a black one. 



Oxylophus Coromandus : Red-winged Crested Cuckoo. Mr. 

 Jerdon has seen specimens of this bird from the forests of Malabar. 



O. edolius: Pied Crested Cuckoo. Of this species, the same 

 naturalist has " obtained one young bird in the nest of Malacocercus 

 griseus, in a thick hedge in Coimbatoor. It has a loud peculiar call, 

 which it only appears to utter when on the wing. In Telegoo it is 

 called Gollee kokeelah, or ' Milkman Cuckoo,' it being said to call 

 * Gollee Gollee,' and when pronounced gutturally, these words have not 

 at all a distant resemblance to its cry." Dr. Buchanan Hamilton also 

 obtained the egg of this species in the nest of a Malacocercus, and 

 figures it of a spotless blue colour, as is also the egg of its dupe; and 



