944 Mr. Blyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



cribed by the specific name tenuirostris, which term is applied by 

 Gray in Hardwicke's Illustrations to the female of C. niger. C.Jlavus 

 is described from Bengal and Java, the niger being thus regarded 

 as identical with it (vide p. 241 ante;) and a variety (?) is mentioned, 

 only half the size, but presenting no other difference. There is also 

 described a C. lineatus: "like C.Jlavus, but larger; above brown- 

 grey, darkest on wings and back ; beneath rufous, barred with black ; 

 tail brown above, edged with white beneath. East Indian Isles."* 



The C. (Chrysococcyx) lucidus, (vide XI, 917,) would appear to be 

 Himalayan. At least a specimen occurs in a collection formed partly in 

 the Himalaya, and partly in central India, presented to the Society 

 by C. Fraser, Esq. ; and a member of this group is mentioned in a 

 catalogue of Nepalese birds forwarded by Mr. Hodgson. 



C. (Chrysococcyx) chalcites? (XI, 919). A specimen which I pre- 

 sume to be the adult male of this species, from Macao, considerably 

 resembles the young of C. lucidus, and may be described as follows. 

 Length about five inches and three-quarters, of wing three inches and 

 a half only, and tail two inches and a half; bill to gape three-quarters 

 of an inch, and tarse exceeding half an inch, being feathered for only 

 the upper third. Upper-parts metallic green, not very vivid, and much 

 bronzed : lower-parts white, transversely barred with the colour above : 

 tail having an obscure subterminal dusky bar, beyond which, on the 

 extremity of the inner web of each feather save the middle pair, is a 

 white spot ; the rest of the inner webs of the outer tail-feathers are 

 barred black and white, successively less defined and more tinged with 

 rufous as they approach the middle pair: bill blackish, with some 

 yellow at the base of the upper mandible ; and legs also dark. 



To return to M. Lesson's Cuckoos, it appears that Phcenicophceus 

 calorhynchus (J. A. S. XI, 1098,) is identical with Zanclostomus 

 Javanicus ; and the Piaya erythrorhyncha, Lesson, would seem to be 

 referrible to the same. Taccocoa Leschenaultii appears to be identical 

 with Zanclostomus sirkee. The Phcenicophceus lucidus, Vigors, Ph. 



* Two specimens from Chusan differ only from the Indian bird in their rather 

 smaller size, though the beak appears fully as large. Both are in the plumage 

 wbich I have described as the second dress of the male C. niger, having the under- 

 pays rufous from the breast, and one of them retaining some of the barred nestling 

 feathers upon its wings. Length of the wings (in both) four inches, and of tail four 

 inches and one-eighth. Of the Bengal bird, I have recently obtained female speci- 



