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9. ElJRYLAIMTTS OCHROMALUS, E a f f 1. 



Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. V. 



The pale collar is generally vinaceous pink below, quite white 

 above, and in most specimens which I saw, from Malacca and the 

 Wellesley Province, almost interrupted in the middle of the neck 

 above. The white subterminal spots extend over both webs on the 

 outermost tail feathers, and are, as likewise the small spot at the 

 base of the primaries, often of a pale sulphur yellow. Some spe- 

 cimens have a few white feathers below and somewhat posterior to 

 the eye. The upper bill is laterally partially yellow, this color 

 extending up to near the tip. Both upper and lower mandibles are 

 emarginated near the tip ; length of wing 3-3^ inch., tail 2-2£". 



Fam. CUCULID^E. 



10. Phcenicophaus cttryirostris, Shaw. 



Bly t h, Cat. p. 75, and Journ. Asiat. Soc, Beng., XI, p. 927, 

 Very common about Malacca and in the Wellesley Province. To- 

 tal length between 17 and 18 inches ; wing 6£'-6|" ; tail 10"-10f", 

 the two central feathers being either wholly metallic green, or ter- 

 minally for about J-th their length tipped with brown ; bill very 

 strong, curved, about \} 2 " at front, 22" from gape ; tarsus 1£". The 

 extreme edgings of the feathers round the red naked space of the 

 eye are always white in full plumaged birds. The chin is white in 

 some, grey in other specimens. 



1 1 . Phcenicophaus [Zanclostomus] Diardi, Less. 



B 1 y t h, Cat. p. 76. 



Common about Malacca and in the Wellesley Province, but ap- 

 parently, like the last species, not extending farther north. It is 

 very closely allied to E a f f 1 e s ' Ph. Sumatra?ius, but a littk 

 smaller and with no rufous colour below. The edgings round th< 

 red naked space of the eye are white, more distinct above thi 

 below, but not developed in the young bird. Wing 5"-5y ; tf 

 9" ; bill at front 1"-H", from gape 1-// ; tarsus l T \. 



12. Ehinorta chloroph^a, E a f f 1. 



B 1 y t h, J. Asiat, Soc. Beng. XI, 923-924, and Cat, p. 76. 

 It is remarkable that, though I observed these birds repeatedly 



