CROTOPHAGI N M. 
This bird was discovered in Borneo, where it is constantly found on the ground searching for insects, its movements 
being performed by a rapid jumping run. 
C. radiceus (Temm.) PI. col. 538. 
Zanclostomus Swains * 
Bill moderate with the culmen and lateral margins greatly curved : the sides much compressed, the 
upper mandible It the base dilated over the lower; the gonys curved downwards ; the nostrils basal, 
lateral, longitudinal, and linear. Wings moderate and rounded, wrth the fifth, sixth, and seventh qm s 
the longest. Tail lengthened and graduated. Tarsi rather longer than the outer anterior toe, and 
covered with broad scales. Toes moderate, the outer lateral toes nearly equal. 
These singular birds inhabit India, its archipelago, 
hedges, amongst which, however prickly they may 
orthopterous insects, on which they feed. They are 
they search for bisects and their larvse. 
and Western Africa, frequenting thick bamboo jungles and close 
be, they make their way with great facility, seeking various 
sometimes seen perched on the lofty trees, the trunks of which 
1. Z .javanicus (Horsf.) Swains. Linn. Trans, xiii. 178., Zool. 
Res . pI ._Coccy*us chrysogaster Temm . ; Phcemcophaus calo- 
rhynchus Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. xi. 1098.; Piaya erythrorhyncha 
2. Z. jlavirostris Swains. B. of W. Afr. p. 1 83. pi. 1 9- 
3. Z . Sirkee (Gray), Jerd. 111. Ind. Zool. pl.-Taccocoa Les- 
chenaultii Less. 
4. Z . viridirostris Jerd. 111. Ind. Ora. 1. pi. 3. — Phcenicophau. 
Jerdoni Blyth. 
5. Z. tristis (Less.) Jerd. Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 132— Phcem- 
cophaus longicaudatus Blyth ; Cuculus sumatranus Baft. 
6. Z. Diardi (Less.) Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 132. 
7. Z. Crawfurdii (Gray), Gray’s Zool. Misc. 1. p. 3. pi. 2. 
Rhinortha Vigors, t 
Bill long, rather straight, with the culmen gradually sloping to the tip, which is suddenly cmved, 
broad at the base, and compressed on the sides ; the nostrils basal, lateral, near the 
and linear. Wings short, rounded, with the sixth and seventh quills equal and longest. Tati Ion an 
graduated. Tarsi longer than the outer anterior toe, and covered with broad scales. Toes moderate, 
the outer ones the longest ; the claws moderate and slightly curved. 
The type of this division is peculiar to the islands of the Indian archipelago. 
Gray, Zool. Misc. pi. 9- 1 Bubutus Duvancelii Less. ; Flioenicophaus 
viridirostris Byton ; Anadamus rufescens Swains. 
_ ,, , h Vie 1 et Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 288. 
-PhLTcophlus caniceps Vigors et Horsf.; Bubutus Isidori 
Belang.Voy pl.2.; Cuculus sumatranus Cue.; Coccyzus bad , 
Scythrops Lath.% 
Bill lengthened strong, the culmen arched, and curved at the tip, which is hooked and acute ; the 
sides^ compressed ’and chjnneled ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and partly covered by a naked membrane. 
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