THE HED-WINGED CHESTED CUCKOO. 
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valley J not very far from where Mr. Limborg procured the typical and only 
specimen he obtained. Not one out of a very numerous series of C. xan- 
thorhynchus from the Pegu Division exhibits any white on the back or hind 
neck ; so that, on the whole, I am inclined to consider C. limborgi a distinct 
species, confined, so far as we at present know, to Tenasserim. 
Genus COCCYSTES, Gloger. 
500. COCCYSTES COROMANDUS. 
THE RED-WINGED CRESTED CUCKOO. 
Cuculus coromandus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 171. Coccystes coromandus, Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 341 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 138 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 67 ; 
Hume, S. F. iii. p. 82 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 81 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 61 j 
Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 249 ; Hnne JDav. S. F. vi. p. 162 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 89 ; Scully, 8. F. viii. p. 257. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, lores, feathers under the 
eye, cheeks, ear- coverts, crown, nape and crest black ; chin, throat and 
fore neck fulvous ; a white collar round the hind neck ; upper plumage, 
tail, lesser wing-coverts and the innermost greater coverts black, tinged 
with green and blue ; the tail-feathers tipped with dirty white, increasing 
in extent towards the outside ; primaries, secondaries and greater coverts 
chestnut tipped with brown ; tertiaries glossy brown ; under wing-coverts 
pale chestnut ; breast and abdomen white, tinged with fulvous ; vent 
smoky brown, turning to black on the coverts, which are also tipped with 
whitish ; thighs and sides of the body greyish brown tinged with rufous. 
The young have the black in the upper plumage of the adult replaced by 
glossy brown edged with rufous ; the collar is tinged with rufous ; chin, 
throat and upper breast fulvous-white ; the tail-feathers have larger tips. 
Bill black; mouth salmon-colour; iris pale reddish brown; eyelids 
plumbeous; legs plumbeous; claws horny. The young have the iris 
brown, the gape orange. 
Length 18*5 inches, tail 10, wing 6*4, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1*4. The 
female is quite as large as the male. 
The Red-winged Crested Cuckoo is very common over the whole of 
Pegu, except in the large grassy plains of the south. Mr. Blyth records it 
from Arrakan. Mr. Davison states that it is extremely rare in Tenas- 
serim, and he procured it only at Amherst and near Tavoy. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay observed it in Karennee. 
It is a bird of wide range, as it occurs in the Indo-Burmese coimtries, the 
