COCCYSTES COKOMANDUS. 
(THE RED-WINGED CRESTED CUCKOO.) 
Cuculw coromandus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 171. no. 20 (1766) ; Lath. Ind. Om. p. 216 (1 7 90). 
Cuculus collaris , Yieillot, N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. viii. p. 229 (1816). 
Oxyloplms coromandus, Jerd. Cat. B. S. Ind., Madr. Journ. 1840 xi p 272 ; Blyth J. A. b. • 
J 1842, p. 920 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 74. no. 363 (1849); Kelaart, Piodromus, 
Cat. p. 128 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xm. p. 45 ■ 
Coccystes coromandus , Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. o. u. P- ( ’ ^ 
of Ind. i. p. 341 (1862) ; Cab. et Heine, Mns. Hein. iv. p. 45 (1862) ; Holdswoitb, • • 
1872, p. 432 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs (Rough Draft), p. 138 (18/3) ; id. Stiay Feat . 
1875, p. 82 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 61 (1877). 
Coucou Imppe de Coromandel Buffon, PI. Enl. p. 274 ; Coromandel Cuckoo of some ; 
Collared Crested Cuckoo , Kelaart. 
Terra gola KoUla, Telugu ; Tseben, Lepchas (Jerdon). 
Konde-koha, lit. “ Crested Cuckoo,” Sinhalese. 
Mult male. Length 15-0 inches ; wing 6-3 ; tail 9-3 ; tarsus 0-9 ; outer anterior toe 0-95, claw (straight) 0-35 ; bill to 
gape 1‘3. 
Adult female. Length 16 inches ; wing 6-7 ; tail 97 ; bill to gape 1*4. , ... 
■ ■ 1 'Ll >.,. own . pni black inside of mouth and nostrils coral-red ; legs and feet bluish slate, claws black. 
sri rgs Msg SPSS's 
of belly,’ the abdomen, vent, and thigh-coverts becoming dusky grey ; under tail-coverts green-black, edged 
fulvous-white, some of the feathers having pale centres. 
somewhat. 
Y „ mvj . I„ Hodgson’s dr.wing of the “young, lordly arfgod,” the bill and eyelid .re polo red, tie iris is pal. brown, 
feathers o, fie 
the quills and wmg-coverts more deeply margined with the same , tail teatne g - 
pale rufous ; ear-coverts and entire under surface white. 
_ , d fhf mar has t h e green portions of the upper surface, including the upper tail-coyerts, tipped and edged 
towards the extremities of the feathers with rufous, and the ground-colour brownish metaUic green ; throat whitish, 
washed with yellowish rufous j under tail-coverts and abdomen tapped with ferruginous. 
, . m, -r, i • „ 0 a Pvps+pd Cuckoo one of the handsomest of its tribe in Ceylon, is a 
»i™t"^Ar^V»triving about October ind departing again in April. ££ 
, ° . ■ r ,, nf tlip :„ lalld altogether, I have been unable to ascertain with certainty ; but there 
the extreme north ot the island aito s ei , , » • Octnhpr 1876 while I was at 
question about its being a visitor to the southern parts of the west coast, for m October 187b, ^ ^ 
