PHCENICOPHAUS JAVANICUS. 
Ord. III 1 ?* Les Gbimpeuhs, Cuvier. 
Ord. V 1 ?* Zygodactyles, Temminck. 
Ord. II. PiCiE, Linn. Syst. Sect. II. Pedibus scansoriis. 
Ord. I. Scansores, IUiger. Fam. 3, Ampbiboli. 
PHCENICOPHAUS, Vieillot, Temminck 
Les Malcohas, Fatf/. CW. 
Char. Gen. — Rostrum mediocre sive longiusculum, validum, crassum, glaberrimum, 
arcuatum, culmine rotundato, tomiis integerrimis. Nares laterales lineares aut 
ovatiusculae, prope basin rostri sitae vel remote ; vibrissas sparsa? ad basin rostri. 
Regio t>pbthalmica nuda marnilkris. Cauda gradata elongata. Aim breves 
rotundata? : remiges : prima ad quartam gradatim increscentes ; quarta et quinta 
longissimae. Pedes scansorii congrui. JDigiti externi internis longiores. Aero- 
podia scutulata. 
Phoenicophaus cano-viridescente niger, malis gula jugido crisso cruribusque ferru- 
gineo-badiis, rectricibus apice albis. 
Bubut-kemhang, of the Javanese. 
Phoenicophaus javanicus, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. 
Trans. Vol XIII. p. 178. 
EVERY ornithologist is acquainted with the difficulties which not unfrequently 
occur in the classification of birds. After the most careful examinations and compa- 
risons, a doubt remains in many cases, as to the propriety of a disposition. This was 
the case with the bird which was described with the name of Phoenicophaus javanicus, 
in the Systematic Arrangement of Birds from Java, published in the XIHth Volume 
of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and which lias been selected for the 
present article. Our bird has a relation, as well to the genus Cuculus as to that of 
Phoenicophaus, while in some characters it differs from both; and I have now to 
state my reasons for associating it with the latter. The peculiarities which require 
notice, in (Mscrimmating these two genera, are the relative compression and length of 
