Genus COCCYSTES. 
Head crested. Bill more curved and compressed than in the preceding genera. Nostrils 
ovate, basal, exposed, and placed near the margin. Wings rather short, rounded, the 4th quill 
the longest. Tail long, much graduated. Tarsus longer than in Cuculus , exceeding the inner 
anterior toe ; the upper portion feathered, the rest covered with broad transverse scales ; outer 
posterior toe considerably longer than the inner one. 
COCCYSTES JACOBINUS. 
(THE PIED CRESTED CUCKOO.) 
Cuculus jacobinus, Bodcl. Tabl. PI. Enl. 872 (1783). 
Cuculus melanoleucos, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. no. 35, p. 416 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 211 
(1790). 
Oxylophus edolius , Jerd .[nee Cuv.) Cat. B. S. India, Maclr. Journ. 1840, xi. p. 222. 
Oxylophus melanoleucos , Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 74 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 451. 
Oxylophus serratus, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 128 (1852). 
Coccystes melanoleucos, Plorsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 694 (1856) ; Jerdon, B. 
of Ind. i. p. 339. 
Coccystes jacobinus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 45 (1862) ; Holdswortli, P. Z. S. 1872, 
p. 432 ; Plume, Nests and Eggs (Rough Draft), p. 137 (1873) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 
p. 597 ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 366 ; Ball, ibid. p. 394 ; Butler, ibid. 1875, p. 461 ; 
Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 284; Morgan, ibid. 1875, p. 315; Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, 
p. 457. 
Jacobin huppe de Coromandel, Daubent. PI. Enl. pi. 872 ; The Pied Cuckoo, in India; Popiya, 
Hind., also Chatak ; Kola Bulbul, Bengal. ; Gola kokila, lit. “ Milkman Cuckoo,” also 
Tangadci gorankali, Telugu (Jerdon). 
Konde koha, lit. “ Crested Cuckoo,” Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female. Length 12’0 to 13'0 inches ; wing 6-4 to h'7 ; tail 5-4 to 5-5 ; tarsus 1-0 ; outer anterior 
toe 0'8, its claw (straight) 0 - 3 : bill to gape 1 - 1. 
Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet bluish slate, edges of scales whitish, claws blackish. 
Head, cheeks, upper surface, tail, and wings glossy green-black, the crown-feathers lanceolate and rather stiff, forming 
a fine crest one inch in length ; quills dull black ; basal half of primaries, with the exception of that part of the 
outer web of the 1st and inner web of the last, white ; central rectrices tipped white, and the terminal | inch 
of the rest the same hue ; entire under surface and under wing-coverts sullied white, which passes up behind the 
ear-coverts on to the sides of the neck ; greater lower primary-coverts blackish. 
1 oung. Birds of the year have the bill pale at the base ; the legs and feet paler than the adults. The upper surface 
is sepia-brown, with the nape, ear-coverts, and sides of neck blackish : the forehead paler than the head, and the 
lesser wing-coverts are edged with greyish ; beneath fulvous-grey or buff-white, with the sides of the throat 
brownish from the chin to below the ear-coverts. 
Ohs. An individual from the hills in the north-west of India measures — wing 5’7 inches, fail 6-8, bill to gape 1-3 
