MALKOHA. 253 



Inhabits Ceylon, where it is called Malkoha ; lives in the woods, 

 and feeds on fruits. A specimen, in Mr. DanielFs drawings, was 

 full eighteen inches long, and named Maal-kenda-Ettah. 



2 — TRI-COLOURED MALKOHA. 



Cuculus curvirostris, Curve-billed Cuckow, Nat. Misc. pi. 905. 

 Phoenicophaus tricolor, Tricoloured JMalkoha, Gen. Zool. ix. 61. pi. 14- 

 Le Malkoha Rouverdin, Levail. Afr. v. 92. pi. 225. 



THIS is more than sixteen inches long. The bill stout, formed 

 as in the Red-headed, but pale in colour; the bare part on the sides 

 of the head occupying less space ; the head full of feathers, bluish 

 grey; neck behind, upper parts of the body, and wings, dull green, 

 in some lights appearing more or less glossy ; throat, neck before, 

 breast and belly, thighs and vent, brownish chestnut; tail greatly 

 cuneiform, the two middle feathers near seven inches long, the 

 exterior three ; colour dull green, in some lights glossy, with the ends, 

 for some length, brownish chestnut ; legs dusky blue ; claws crooked; 

 the wings reach but little beyond the base of the tail. 



Supposed to inhabit India. — In the Cabinet of M. Temminck, 

 of Amsterdam. 



A. — Length eighteen inches. Bill stout, much curved, and pale 

 horn-colour ; under mandible dusky, with a few hairs at the base ; 

 plumage above fine deep green, very glossy, about the head more 

 dull ; all the under parts ferruginous ; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers ten inches long, the outer only six ; colour as the back, with 

 the end half of all the feathers deep ferruginous ; the wings reach 

 just to the base ; legs brown. 



In the Museum of Mr. Bullock, and appears to be a mere 

 Variety of the former, if both do not differ in sex only from the 

 Red-headed Species. 



