Genus C h r y s o n o t u s , Swainson.
33. C h r y s o n o t u s s h o r e i , Vigors.
Picus shorei, Vigors, Journ. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 175; Gould, Cent. Him. B., pi. xlix, 1882;
Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. xiii, p. 189, 1844.
Brachypterus shorei, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844.
Tiga shorei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 198, 1845; Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 441,
1846; Hodgs., Cat. B., Nep., p. 117, 1846; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 196, 1870 ; Hume,
Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 78; id., 1877, p. 497.
Chrysonotus shorei, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. ii, p. 658, 1856-58;
Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 898, 1868.
Chrysonotus biddulphi, Tickell, Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 844.
a. t Bham6, 16th January 1868.
Hitherto this bird has only been found in the Himalaya and the Malabar gh&ts.
P & n A j— C U C U L ID M
Genus C u c u l u s , Linnaeus.
. 34 C uctjltjs c a n o r u s , Linn.
Le Coucou, Month., PI. Enl., t. vi, pi. 811.
Cuculus canorus, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 168, 1766; Lath., Ind. Ora., vol. i, p. 807, 1790;
Temm., Man. d'Om., t. i, p. 881, 1880; Roux, Orn. Prov., pis. lxv, lxvi, 1885; M6neti\, Cat.
Rais. Ois. Coucas., p. 46, 1831; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1838, p. 98; Selby, 111. Om., vol. i,
p. 897, 1838;~ Gould, B. Eur., pi. 840, 1837; Macgill, Brit. B., vol. iii, p. 109, 1840; Blyth,
Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 901,1848; Yarrell, Brit. B., vol. ii, p. 179, 1848; Gray,
Cat. M. and B., Nepal, Hodgs. Coll., p. 119, 1846; id., Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 463, 1847;
Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 71, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, 1850, p. 108; Middend.,
Sibir. Reise, p. 131, 1851; Brehm, Naum., 1855, p. 871; Jaub. & Lap., Rich. Om.,
p. 836, 1856; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 708, 1858; Schrenck, Sibir.
Reise, p. £56, 1859; Linderm., Vog. Griechenl., p. 39, 1860; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 388,
1868; Radde, Sibir. Reise, p. 133, 1863; Filippi, Viagg. Pers., p. 850, 1865; Loche, Expl.
Sci. Alger. Ois., t. ii, p. 76,1867; Sundev., Svensk. Fogl., pi. xxi, fig. 4, 1867; Degl. & Gerbe,
Orn. Eur., vol. i, p. 161, 1867 ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil., p. 58, 1869; Blanf., Geol. and Zool.
Abyss., p. 318, 1870; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 815, 1870; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 867, 1870; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 895; David, N. Arch.,
vol. vii, Bull., p, 4, 1871; Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 180; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1878,
p. 430 ; Salvad., Faun. Ital. Ucc., p. 41, 1878; Wald., Tr. Zool. Soc., vol. viii, p. 115, 1878;
Gould, B. Brit., vol. iii, pi. lxvii, 1878; Cock. & Marsh., Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 351; Adam.,
t. c., p. 873; Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 393; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 168; Blyth & Walden,
Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., 1875, p. 79; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind.
B., p. 188, 1873; id., Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 78; 'Blanf., Zool. Pers., p. 119, 1876; Butler,
Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 37; Scully, t. c., pp. 90, 134; Hume, t. c., pp. 879 e t 288; op. cit.,
:f.J877, vol. v, p. 87; Butler, t. c., p. 887; Wharton, Ibis, 1876, p. 8 6 ; Seebohm & Brown,
op. cit., 1877, p. 118; Dresser, t. c., p. 880; Finsch., t. c., pp. 50, 51; Ayres, I. c., p. 848;
W. Ramsay, t. c., p. 458.
Cuculus hepaticus, Sparm., Mus. Carls., pi. lv, 1788; Lath., Ind. Om., vol. i, p. 815, 1790.
Cuculus rufus, Bechst., Om. Tasch., th. i, p. 84, 1808.
Le Coucou vulgaire d’Europe, Levaill., Ois. d'Afr., t. v, pls^ 808, 803, 1806.
Cuculus borealis, Pall., Zoogr. Ross. Asiat.,.t, i, p. 442, 1881.
a. $ Ponsee, 21st April 1868.
I have two specimens before me from England, with which my Yunnan bird
agrees in every particular. Hr. Jerdon has remarked that the under tail-coverts of
C. canorus have distinct arrow-shaped markings, but in the specimen before me,
they are barred, but more widely so than on the breast, &c.
We first heard the Cuckoo at Ponsee, about the end of March, and its well-
known notes were usually traced to some patch of low tree-jungle on old paddy
clearings, on the hillsides overlooking our camp.
35. C u c u l u s s o n n e r a t i , Latham.
Le petit Coucou deslndes, Sonn., Voy. Ind., t. ii, p. 211, 1782.
Sonnerat’s Cuckow, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl., p. 102, 1787.
Cuculus sonnerati, Latham, Ind. Orn., vol. i, p. 215, 1790 ; Strickl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1846, p. 104 ;
Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 463, 1847 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 204, 1847 ;
id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 72, 1849 ; Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. (2), vol. xiii, p. 452,
1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 325, 1862; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 217, 1870; Holds-
worth, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 430 ; Huine, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 472 ; Blyth & Walden,
Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 80,1875; Fadrhank, Stray Feathers, vol. iv,
1876, pp. 255 e t 265.
Cuculus himalayanus, Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. xi, p. 220, 1840.
Cuculus venustus, Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. xiii, p. 141, 1844.
a. 8 Sawady, Upper Burma, 27th January 1875.
Genus C a c o m a n t i s , Muller.
36. C a c o m a n t i s r u f i v e n t r i s , Jerdon.
Polyphasia tenuirosiris, Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 98, 1870.
Polyphasia rufiventris, Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 15.
Olylagon tenuirosiris, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 80.
Cacomantis passerinus, Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., 1875, p. 80,
(nec. Vahl.)f
Cacomantis rufivenira, Armstrong, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 312.
a. Ponsee, 20th April 1868.
I have observed specimens of C. rufiventris, in which the rufous passes as far
forwards as the chin, and others in which the ashy of the breast spreads back on to the
rufous of the abdomen.
Genus S u r n i c u l u s , Lesson.
37. S u r n ic u l u s l u g u b r i s , Hodgson. •
Cuculus lugubris, Hodgson, Trans. Linn. Soc.', vol. xiii, p. 175, 1821 ; id., Zool. Res., Java,
pi. lviii, 1824; Mull., Verhandl., p. 178, 1839-44; Low, Sarawak, p. 411, 1848; Schlegel,
Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 28, 1864; Pelz., Novar. Reise, Vog., pp. 104, 162, 1865.