252 MALKOHA. 



GENUS XXIV— MALKOHA. 



1 Red-headed Malkoha 



2 Tri-coloured 



A Var. 

 3 White-bellied 



4 Sintok 



5 Javan 



jLN this Genus the bill is stout, longer than the head, curved from 

 the base, and smooth edged. 



Nostrils linear, near the margin. 



Side of the head, round the eye, bare and granulated. 



Wings short. 



Toes placed two before and two behind ; claws short, and bent. 



1— RED-HEADED MALKOHA— Pl. lv. 



Cuculus pyrrhoceplialus, Ind.Orn.i. 222. Gm. Lin.'i. 417. Zool. Ind. t. 6. 



Phoenicophaus pyrrhocephalus, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 39. 



Le Malkoha, Levail. Afr.v. p. 90. pl.224. 



Red-headed Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 544. Ind. Zool. pl. 6. 



THE length of this bird is sixteen inches ; weight four ounces. 

 Bill strong, very thick at the base, and bends downwards, colour 

 greenish yellow ; top and hind part of the head and neck, under 

 the jaws, greenish black, with a slender white streak down the shafts 

 of the feathers, and from the narrowness of those about the head, 

 appear as numerous specks ; sides of the head, and round the eyes, 

 wholly bare of feathers, appearing rough or granulated, and reddish 

 orange-colour, bounded beneath with white ; but down the middle 

 of the crown covered with feathers ; fore part of the neck, back, and 

 wings greenish black, with a gloss of green on the last ; tail very 

 long, cuneiform, greenish black, appearing glossy in some lights, 

 the feathers white for nearly one-third from the end ; breast and belly 

 white; the legs brown, with yellowish scales; claws crooked; the 

 wings reach a little beyond the middle of the tail. 



