THE MALAYAN COEL. 
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Capt. Feilden remarks that he has seen a pair of nestlings of this bird on 
the same branch,, and that it probably lays two eggs in the same nest. The 
eggs are deep blue in colour. 
Genus EUDYNAMIS, Vig. & Horsf. 
502. EUDYNAMIS MALAYANA. 
THE MALAYAN COEL. 
Eud3mamis malayana, Cab. et Hein. Miis. Hein. iv. p. 52 ; Wald. Ibis, 1869, 
p. 339, 1873, p. 303 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 68 ; ITtmie, S. F. ii. p. 192, iii. p. 82 ; 
Bl. Wald. B. Burm. p. 81 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 162 ; David et Oust. 
Ois. Chine, p. 61 ; Hume ^- Bar. S. F. vi. p. 162 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89 ; 
Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 168 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 392. Eudynamis chi- 
nensis {Cab. et Hein?), apud Bl. B. Burm. p. 81. 
Description. — Male. The whole plumage black glossed with blue. 
The female has the whole head and neck streaked with black and rufous 
in varying proportions according to age ; the whole lower plumage pale 
rufous, cross-barred with black zigzag lines ; the upper plumage dark 
brownish black spotted with rufous ; wings^ tail and upper tail-coverts 
black broadly barred with rufous ; the whole plumage shot with green and 
blue. Other females differ in having the head-streaks deep rufous-bay ; 
others have the head nearly all black_, the rufous streaks being narrow 
and few ; the bars on the lower plumage and the spots on the upper also 
vary much in size. 
Young males have the wings and greater coverts dull brown^ the coverts 
tipped with white ; the under wing-coverts are also tipped with white ; 
the lateral tail-feathers are irregularly barred with white near their tips. 
Bill dull green, dusky at the gape and about the nostrils ; mouth flesh- 
colour ; iris bright crimson ; eyelids pinkish brown ; legs plumbeous ; 
claws dark horn. 
Length 17 inches, tail 8, wing 8^ tarsus 1*3;, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is of about the same size. 
This species differs from the Indian E. honorata in the male being larger 
with a larger bill, and in the female having the whole head and neck 
streaked with black and the bars and spots on the body-plumage rufous, 
whereas the female of E. honorata has these latter white. 
The Malayan Coel is abundant throughout British Burmah from 
February to June. At other times of the year it is altogether absent. It 
extends on the north as far as Cachar and the hiU- tracts of Eastern Bengal, 
