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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
but apparently not to Nipal, as has been stated. It occurs in the Malay 
peninsula_, Sumatra_, Java, Borneo, Siam and Cochin China, and it is also 
recorded from China. 
The well-known Coel arrives in Burmah at the commencement of the 
hot season, and all the country becomes alive with these handsome Cuckoos 
at about the same time. Its loud and melodious call strikes the ear every- 
where alike in dense forest arid in cultivated grounds. It lays its eggs in 
the nests of Crows ; and Dr. Tiraud states that in Cochin China the eggs 
are also placed in the nests of Mynahs. I have seen Jungle-Crows care- 
fully tending young Coels as late as the 23rd May. The eggs are green 
blotched with reddish brown. 
Subfamily PHCENICOPHiEIN^. 
Genus RHINORTHA, Vigors. 
503. RHINORTHA CHLOROPH^A. 
THE SMALL GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA. 
Cuculus chlorophseus, Hqffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 288. Rhynortha chlo- 
rophaea, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 69. Rhinortha chlorophsea, Bl. B, Burm, 
p. 82 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 166 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89. 
Description, — Male. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck, 
back and wings chestnut, deeper on the wings, the quills of which are 
tipped with dusky ; rump and upper tail-coverts smoky brown, closely and 
indistinctly barred with yellowish brown ; tail dark smoky brown or 
blackish tipped with white, the whole surface, except near the white tips, 
closely barred with yellowish brown ; cheeks, chin, throat and breast pale 
chestnut or bnff, passing to dusky on the lower breast; remainder of the 
lower plumage smoky grey obsoletely barred darker ; under wing-coverts 
chestnut. 
The female has the forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck 
grey; the remainder of the upper plumage bright chestnut; the quills 
tipped dusky ; the tail tipped white, with a subterminal black bar ; chin, 
throat and upper breast grey, paler than the head, and in some birds 
tinged with fulvous ; lower breast fulvous, deepening on the abdomen and 
sides of the body ; vent and under tail -coverts dull chestnut ; under wing- 
coverts chestnut, 
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