CATALOGUE. 
697 
Inhabits India, the Tenasserim provinces, and Ceylon. 
According to Mr. Hodgson, " this species is confined exclusively 
to the mountain forests. Sexes alike. Iris hoary-brown ; palate 
red ; legs and feet blue." 
Mr. Jerdon observes, " I obtained a single specimen of this most 
extraordinary species of Cuckoo in the Wynaad, near Manantoddy, 
and n^ver again observed it. Irides reddish-brown ; legs reddish. 
Does this Drongo Cuckoo select the nest of the Dicrurus to deposit 
its eggs in ? " 
" In Ceylon, the principal habitat of this Cuckoo seems to be the 
neighbourhood of Kandy, whence Mr. Thwaites has sent numerous 
specimens. I procured it about Cotta, in the low country." — 
(Layard.) 
Genus Polyphasia,^/?/^/^, J. A. 8. Beng. XII. p. 244 (1843). 
? Cacomantis, Miiller (1842). 
1017. POLYPHASIA MEBULINA, Scopoli Sp. 
Cuculus merulinus, ScopoU, FlorcB et Faunce InsubricB, 
p. (1786). (Sonnerafs Voy. t. 81.) StricUand, 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. p. 391. G. B. Grag, 
Gen. of B. II. p. 463. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. 
Soc. Beng. p. 72. 
Cuculus flavus, Gmelin, S. JSr. I. p. 421 (1788). (PI. 
Bnl.su.) Lath., Hist, of B. 111. p. Horsf., 
Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 179. Baffles, id. p. 285. 
BlgtJi, J. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 912. Bonap., C. G. Av. 
p. 103. 
Polyphasia flava, Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. XII. pp. 
241-44. 
Cuculus pyrogaster, Brapiez, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. 
? Cuculus variegatus et flaviventris, ScopoU {Sonn., Voy. 
t. 78, 79). 
Yellow-bellied Cuckoo, Latham. 
GrEDASSE, Java, Horsfield. 
A. B. c. d. (adult and young). Java. From Dr. Hors- 
field's Collection. 
e. Drawing. Sumatra. From Rafiles's Collection. 
/ g. h. Pinang. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
