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of wing respectively 8*25 inches and 7'25 inches, and of tail 
8*5 inches and 7*5 inches. It is remarkable that various other 
species of Coel are very locally restricted (but all are within the 
confines of the great range of distribution mentioned). Thus 
E. melanorhynchus appears to be confined to Celebes ; and Mr. 
Wallace gives E . punctatus from Amboyna, My sol, and New 
Guinea, E. ransomi from Bourn and Ceram, E. picatus from 
Amboyna and Ternate, and E. facialis from the Sula Islands, 
midway between Celebes and the Moluccas. E. taitensis of New 
Zealand (Ibis, 1862, p. 231) is rather of a different type, inter¬ 
mediate between Eudynamis and Cuculus. It belongs to the 
Polynesian province of the Australian region, and is noticed 
from the Fiji Islands in the ‘ Ornithology of Wilkes's United 
States' Exploring Expedition' (p. 248 and pi. xxii. f. 2)! I do 
not think that the birds of this genus are anywhere migratory, 
or only to a slight extent, if at all so. A pair of the Indian Coel 
are now living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. 
213. CoCCYSTES COROMANDUS. 
The nestling young is figured by Mr. Hodgson, a good deal 
like that of C. melanoleucus , but of course with no white on the 
tail-feathers. 
215. Zanclostomus tristis. 
Obtained by the late M. Mouhot in Cambogia. The Z . 
javanicus (Horsf.) ( Cuculus erythrorhynchus of the Paris Museum), 
noticed by Dr. Pucheran (Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 475), was most 
assuredly never obtained in Bengal, though its range extends to 
the Southern Tenasserim provinces. 
223. Arachnothera magna. 
Occurs in the Tenasserim provinces (J. A. S. B. xxviii. 
p. 416), and a beautiful allied species in Pegu, A. aurata, nobis 
(J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478). 
224. Arachnothera pusilla. 
Mr. Wallace has an example of this species from Sumatra; 
and I have seen it from Malacca. 
234 and 235. Arachnechthra currucaria (Linn.), and 
A. lotenia (Linn.), Gould, B. As. pt. viii. pis. 
