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the tail has its middle-feathers shining green, with a dusky purplish 

 band at tip, — the next pair similar, but with deep rufous broadly margin- 

 ing the basal half of their outer webs, — this rufous is successively more 

 developed on the two succeeding pairs, — and the outermost has its ex- 

 terior web and the contiguous portion of its inner web pure white, 

 banded with shining green, which extends also over the rufous portion 

 of the inner web : terminal third of the bill dusky, the rest translucent 

 pale straw-yellow in the dry specimen. Another supposed female is 

 throughout in the hepaticus plumage, or rufous above, white below, 

 with greenish- dusky bars throughout, the outermost tail-feather marked 

 with white chiefly on its exterior web, and the two next tail-feathers 

 slightly tipped with white : bill, with the basal half amber-colour- 

 ed, the remainder dusky. Another, again, is of a predominant dull 

 glossy green above, with the same rufous and white on the tail, but its 

 middle-feathers are also obscurely barred with rufous, and most of the 

 wing- feathers are margined with the same : bill wholly dusky. Lastly, 

 another is chiefly of a dusky hue above, scarcely glossed with greenish, 

 the feathers having slight rufous margins more developed on the wings ; 

 and tail as in the last. In all, however, the under-parts are much more 

 closely banded than in the Australian species ; and the wing measures 

 generally four inches, or sometimes four and a quarter in adults. In- 

 habits the hilly parts of India, but seems to be everywhere rare. Brown 

 figures it from Ceylon ; and I have seen it from Central India, Rajmahl, 

 Arracan, &c. 



Chr. basalis : Cuculus basalis, Horsfield : C. chalcites, Tern. : C. 

 malayanus, Raffles. This seems exactly to resemble the last, except in 

 its constantly smaller size ; and it is equally variable. Wing three 

 inches and a half to three and three-quarters. It holds the same rela- 

 tionship to the Indian species, which C. lugubris, Horsfield, does to C. 

 dicruroides, Hodgson, and C. flavus does to C. tenuirostris. The speci- 

 men described in XII, 944, was not, I believe, from Macao (as I was 

 informed), but from Malacca. Specimens corresponding to the adult 

 male of Chr. smaragdinus, have not hitherto fallen under my observation. 



Chr. lucidus (?), Gm. : C. metallicus, Vig. This is the Australian 

 species, corresponding in size to the first, but having constantly, so far 

 as I have seen, a black bill, the under-parts much more distantly banded, 

 and presenting various other distinctions. 



