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culum of skin; and there is a row of stiff bristles above the eye. The tarsus 
is naked, except quite at the tibial joint; tail graduated, longer than the wing. 
The birds seem to be adapted to a life on the ground in jungle and scrub; they 
are not parasitic in their breeding-habits. 
GENUS CENTROCOCCYX Cab. Heine. 
In these Coucals the toes are not longer than the tarsus and the hind 
(first) toe with the claw is longer than the middle toe and claw. 
The bill is shorter than the head and considerably hooked; the contour-feathers 
of the head, mantle and breast are dense and close, with thickened pitch-black 
spinous shafts ; wing short and blunt, 4 ^^ to 6**^ quills longest, secondaries shorter 
by about Ve the wing-length; tail strongly graduated, longer than the wing by 
V3 or V4, the outermost rectrix about half the length of the tail. The sexes 
are similar in coloration, but the right testis only of the male is present; it is 
smaller than the female and broods on the eggs, while only the female has 
been as yet observed to utter call-notes. The young are quite different from 
the parents, covered with spines as fledgelings, then assuming a barred plumage. 
4- 71. CENTROCOCCYX BENGALENSIS (Gm.). 
Lesser Coucal. 
a. Cueulus bengalensis (1) Gni., S. N. 1788, I, 412 (Bengala). 
h. Cueulus javanensis (1) Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. 1818, XI, 144, 
c. Centropus affinis (1) Horsf., Tr. Z. S. 1822, XIII, 180 (Java); (2) Bernst., J. f. 0. 1859, 
185; (3) id., ib. 1860, 269; (4) id., X. T. X. I. XXI, 1860, 27—49, pi. I (anat); (5) 
Sclat., Ibis 1861, 48, note (Java, Malacca, India); (6) Tristr., Oat. Coll. B. 1889, 
85 (Java, Sumatra). 
d. Centropus lepidus (1) Horsf. 1. c. (Java). 
e. Centropus bengalensis (1) Steph., Gen. Zool. 1826, XIV, 213; (2) David & Oust., Ois. 
Chine 1877, 59 (Bormosa, Hainan); '(3) Oates, Str. F. 1877, V, 146 (Pegu); (4) 
Gammie, t. c. 385 (Sikkim); (5) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 171 (Tenasserim) ; 
(6) Bingham, Str. F. 1880, IX, 169 (Tenasserim); (7) Sty an. Ibis 1887, 230 
(Foochow); (8) Shelley, Cat. B. 1891, XIX, 352; (9J De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 
480 (S. China); flOJ Styan, ib. 1893, 433 (Hainan); (11) De La Touche, Ibis 1895, 
336; (12) Blanf., Faun. Br. Ind. B. HI, 1895, 243. 
f. Centropus dimidiatus (1) Blyth, J. A. S. 1843, XH, 945; (2) Swinh. , Ibis 1860, 360 
(Amoy, Hong-Kong). 
g. ? Centropus rectunguis (1) Srickh, P. Z. S. 1846, 104; (2) Schh, Mus. P.-B.. Cuculi 1864, 
67 pt. (India, Formosa and E. India Islands); (3) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 343 
(Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo). 
h. Centropus medius (1) Bp., Consp. I, 1850, 108 (Amboina, Java), (ex S.Mlill. MS.); Wall., 
P. Z. S. 1863, 23 (Buru, Ceram, Gilolo). 
Centropus lignator (1) Swinh., Ibis 1861, 48 (Formosa). 
j. Centrococeyx lepidus (1) Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 1862, IV, 109 (Java); (2) Hartert, 
J. f. 0. 1889, 372 (Sumatra); (3) Heine & Bchnw., Xomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 
204 (Java, Borneo). 
