P I C A R I M. 
cuculid^:. 
PHCENICOPHAIN^l. 
Genus PHCENICOPHAES. 
Bill stout, wide at the base, and suddenly compressed, the tip well bent down; the upper 
mandible very high : the nostrils linear and close to the margin, which is lobed just beneath 
them. Face clothed with a short papillose substance. Wings rounded; the 5th quill the 
longest and the 1st the shortest. Tail very long, broad, and much graduated. Tarsus longer 
than the middle toe and its claw, covered with broad transverse scales; outer anterior toe 
considerably longer than the outer posterior one ; claws short and much curved. Feathers o 
the throat with stiff shafts projecting beyond the webs. 
PHCENICOPHAES PYRRHOCEPHALUS. 
(THE RED-PACED MALKOHA.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Cuculus pyrrhocephalus , Forster, Ind. Zoologie, p. 16, pi. vi. (1781); Gmelm, Syst. Nat. i. 
p. 417. no. 40 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 222 (1790). 
Phcenicophceus pyrrhocephalus, Stephens, Gen. Zool. ix. i. p. 59 (18^5) , Blyth, . A 
1842, p. 927 ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 98 (1850). 
Phcenicophaus leucogaster , Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xviii. p. 461 (1816). 
Melias pyrrhocephalus, Less. Traite d’Orn. p. 131 (1831). __ 
Phcenicophaus pyrrhocephalus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 199 ; Gray, Gen. Birds, n. p. 459 ; 
Blyth Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 75. no. 369 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 129 
(1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 453 ; Legge, J. A. S. (Ceyl. Br.) 
1870-71, p. 37; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 433 ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 346 ; 
id. Ibis, 1874, p. 16, et 1875, p. 285. 
Phcenicophaus ceylonensis , Licht. in Mus. Berl. 
PhoenicojpJiaes pyrrhocephalus } Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. pt. iv. p. 68 (1862). 
The Bed-faced Cuckoo (rothkopfige Kukkuk), Forster ; Malkoha, Pennant and Kelaart. 
Mal-kdendetta , Sinhalese, Western Province ; Warrelliya, m Friars-PIood district. 
v viridis alls dorso concoloribus, primariis extis vix cyanescentibus : rectncibus olivascenti-ymdibus, 
supra melalliw v , u p0 sfcico n ig r i ca ntibus, plumis albido margmatis, quasi striolatis : facie laterau 
late albo termiiuitis . pueo couoiiu p i parofeic&, mento gulaque summit striolatim albis : gutture rebquo 
tota nuda, papillose , ) ub J • * ^do striata : corpore reliquo subtits albo : tibiis f uscesceuti-viridibus : 
^chaHbeSvSfcs, remigibus quoque sub tbs chalybeo nitentibus : rostro flavicanti-viridi, 
^BTpSS?* — i-sdustacei iguibo. brunnesceuti-corneis : iride brunneb. 
2 mari similis, sed iride alba distinguenda. 
