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with blue and the inner webs marked with white^ the outer tail-feathers 
with large white spots ; the lower plumage^ from the breast downwards, 
white barred with metallic green. 
Males not quite mature have the forehead, sides of the head, chin, throat 
and breast barred with white. 
I have not been able to examine an adult female o£ this species ; but it 
probably differs from the male. 
Two immature birds have the whole forehead, crown and nape unbarred 
rufous. 
Legs and feet dark brownish green ; bill bright orange-yellow, tipped 
black j irides red-brown. (Davison.) 
Length 7 inches, tail 3, wing 4*4, tarsus "6, bill from gape '85. 
Specimens of this species are tolerably common in collections in 
England ; but they are not sexed. I am consequently unable to state in 
what way, if any, the female differs from the male. The Siamese bird, 
named by Mr. Gould, appears to me, from the examination of the type in 
the British Museum, to be identical with some birds from the Himalayas. 
The Emerald Cuckoo is found over the greater portion of the Province. 
Colonel Lloyd sent it to England from Tonghoo, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
procured it in the Karin hills near that town. Mr. Olive got one specimen 
near Prome, which I had the opportunity of examining. Mr. Davison 
observed it in Tenasserim as far south as Mooleyit mountain, and Capt. 
Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. Mr. Blyth states that it is found in 
Arrakan. 
It occurs in various parts of India from the Himalayas to Ceylon, and it 
extends into Western China and Siam. 
498. CHRYSOCOCCYX XANTHORHYNCHUS. 
THE VIOLET CUCKOO. 
Cuculus xanthorh5mchiis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 ; id. Zool. Res. 
Java, pi. Cuculus malayanus, Rafft. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 286. Chry- 
sococcyx xanthorhynchus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 62 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 80 ; 
Wardlaiv Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89 ; Oates, S. F. x. 
p. 193. Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 191, iii. p. 81 ; 
Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 161, 506. Lamprococcyx malayanus, Hume 
Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 503 ; Hu7ne, S. F. viii. p. 89. 
Description. — Male, The whole plumage brilliant violet-purple, except on 
the abdomen, vent, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts, which are 
