. Birds. Birds. 234 cucuiiiD^. Bill pale green; irides pale blue; bare orbital space orange, palest round the eye, shading to blood-red at the posterior angle; legs and feet plumbeous green (Davison). Length about 16; tail 9*5; wiijg 5*5; tarsus 1'4; bill from gape 1'5. Distribution. Tenasserim, south of Mergui (common on the island of Mergui), the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. Genus PHCENICOPHAES, VieiUot, 1816. Bill stout, wide at the base, compressed in front; culmen curved throughout, upper mandible very high ; nostril a narrow longitudinal slit, parallel to the commissure an
. Birds. Birds. 234 cucuiiiD^. Bill pale green; irides pale blue; bare orbital space orange, palest round the eye, shading to blood-red at the posterior angle; legs and feet plumbeous green (Davison). Length about 16; tail 9*5; wiijg 5*5; tarsus 1'4; bill from gape 1'5. Distribution. Tenasserim, south of Mergui (common on the island of Mergui), the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. Genus PHCENICOPHAES, VieiUot, 1816. Bill stout, wide at the base, compressed in front; culmen curved throughout, upper mandible very high ; nostril a narrow longitudinal slit, parallel to the commissure and close to it. Sides of the head naked and papiUose, the bare skin extending across the forehead all round the base of the upper mandible ; no eye- lashes. Tail long, broad, and graduated ; wing rounded, leathers of crown and throat with stifE projecting shafts. Sexes only differing in the colour of the iris. A single Kg. 66.—Head of P. pyrrlwcephaius, \. 1126. Fhoenicophaes pyrrhocephalus. The Red-faced MaXkoha. Cuculus pyrrhocephalus, Forster, Ind. Zool. p. 16, pi. vi (1781). Phoenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. '927; id. Cat. p. 75; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, p. 453; HxMsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 433; Zegye, S. F. i, p. 346. Phoenicophaes pyrrhocephalus, Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii, p. 62, fig. 8; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 605, fig. 11; Hume, Cat. no. 216 bis; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 256, pi. xii; Parker, lUs, 1886, p. 184; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 395. MMceendetta, Warreliya, Cingalese. (The first-named appears to have been the orwin of the term Malkoha, quoted by Forster, and applied to several Ground-Cuckoos by European ornithologists.) Coloration. Crown, hind neck, and sides of neck black, with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1
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