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Two birds are figured on the next plate, one being named 
Megalaima indica (Lath.), and called by Colonel Tickell the 
Village Barbet, the other M. philippensis, Temm., and which 
he terms the Jungle Barbet. Both figures represent X. hema- 
cephala; and as Colonel Tickell admits that the Village and the 
Jungle Barbets “are precisely similar in shape and colour,” 
the object of giving a duplicate figure of the same bird is not 
obvious. They are, however, stated to differ in habits and 
voice ; and the dimensions of the Jungle Barbet, as given, are 
a trifle greater. This bird, Colonel Tickell states, is only 
found in deep lofty forests in Tenasserim ; and he syllabicizes 
the notes of the two birds. 
Phenicophaés curvirostris (erythrognathus) is described and 
figured from individuals met with on the Mooleyit range. In 
plumage the sexes are stated to be alike; but while the iris 
of the male is noted as cobalt-blue, that of the female is stated 
to be orange. Colonel Tickell remarks that the species feeds 
on insects, and not on fruits. . 
An example of.a species of Centropus obtained at Hazari- 
bagh, Bengal, is figured and described with the scapular in- 
terspace of the back coloured like the wings. It probably 
falls under C. intermedius, Hume. A Darjeeling adult ex- 
ample, and a young bird from Chota Nagpore, of Cuculus 
- micropterus are represented under the title of C. striatus. 
The plate of Cuculus sparverioides contains a figure of a 
female whose plumage is in the hepatic stage, the tail ex- 
cepted, which is that of the fully adult bird. 
Together with the adult, Polyphasia rufiventris, in hepatic 
barred plumage, is depicted, both from Burman examples. 
The latter is described as a separate species under the title 
of C. castaneus. Colonel Tickell treats P. rufiventris and P. 
passerinus as being merely varieties of one species, which he 
identifies with C. merulinus, Scop. The first he terms the Indo- 
Chinese variety, the other the Indian variety. 
The plumage, which in the Emerald Cuckoo (C. maculatus) 
of India and Burma assumes the brilliant green colouring 
of the adult, is known to be more or less rufous in the 
young bird, the rufous colouring passing into coppery green 
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