CATALOGUE. 
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1001. CENTROPUS EURYCEBCU8, A. Hay. 
Centropus eurycercus, A. Hay, J. A. S. JSeng. XIV. 
p. 551 (1845). Blyth, Oat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng.p. 78. 
Cuculus bubutus, apud Baffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIIT. 
p. 286. 
a. Drawing. Sumatra. From Raffles's Collection. 
b. ^. Malacca. Reserved from the Indian Collection, 
Exposition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 
O. eurycercus : " being particularly remarkable for the great breadth 
of its tail-feathers, each of which measures 2f inches across. Colour 
as in C. rujipennis, but the back and wings are of a brighter and more 
chestnut-brown, and the tail is glossed with steel-blue instead of 
green. Length about 23 inches, of which the middle tail-feathers 
measure half, the outermost being 4f in. shorter ; wing 8f in. ; bill 
to gape nearly 2 in. (in a straight line), and f in. in vertical height, 
being much larger than in C. rufipennis ; tarse 2\ in. ; long hind- 
claw 1 inch." 
1002. CENTROPUS VI RID IS, Scopoli Sp. 
Cuculus viridis, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insuh. p. 
(1786). Sonnerafs Voy. t. 80. 
Centropus viridis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 455. 
BlytJi, Oat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 78; id. App. 
p. 321. Bonap., 0. G. Av.p. 107. 
Polophilus viridis, Shaw, Zool. IX. p. 55. Lath., Hist. 
ofB. 111. p. 247. 
Cuculus bengalensis, Gmelin, S. N. 1. p. 412 (1788). 
{Brown's III. Zool. t. 13.) Lath., Hist, of B. 111. 
p. 248. 
Centropus bengalensis, Jerdon, Madras Journ. XIII. 
pt. 1. p. 172 ; pt. 11. p. 142. 
Corydonyx maculatus, Vieillot. 
^ Centropus affinis, Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 
p. 180 (1821). Bonap., O. G. Av. p, 108. 
% Centropus lepidus, Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 
p. 180 (1821). McOlell, P. Z. S. (1839), p. 166. 
Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 1102 ; XII. p. 945 ; 
XIII. p. 391 ; XIV. p. 202. Hodgs., Oat. B. of 
Nepal, p. 118. 
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