. Birds. Birds. 236 circuiiiii^. tail-coverts dull chestnut; abdomen darker and duller; flanks and thigh-coverts blackish with a green gloss. Bill pale green; both mandibles maroon-red near the base; irides blue in the male, yellow in the female; legs and feet dark . plumbeous. length about 18-5; tail 11; wing 6-75; tarsus 1-6; bill from gape 1'9. Distribution^ The Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, ranging into" Southern Tenasserim as far north as Yay. Habits, Sfc. According to Tickell and Davison, very similar to those of its allies. Tickell observed that this species fed on "
. Birds. Birds. 236 circuiiiii^. tail-coverts dull chestnut; abdomen darker and duller; flanks and thigh-coverts blackish with a green gloss. Bill pale green; both mandibles maroon-red near the base; irides blue in the male, yellow in the female; legs and feet dark . plumbeous. length about 18-5; tail 11; wing 6-75; tarsus 1-6; bill from gape 1'9. Distribution^ The Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, ranging into" Southern Tenasserim as far north as Yay. Habits, Sfc. According to Tickell and Davison, very similar to those of its allies. Tickell observed that this species fed on " Goleoptera, Hemiptera, and very large ; Genus RHINORTHA, Vigors, 1830. ' BUI longer than in the preceding genera and compressed, the culmen almost straight till near the tip ; nostril oval, longitudinal; naked area around the eye not separated from the bill by feathers on the lores. "Wings and tail as in Zandostomus. Feathers of head spiny. Sexes different. A single species. 1128. Rhiuortha cMoropheea. Baffies's Green-billed MaTkoha. Cuculus chlorophseus, Raffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 288 (1822). Ehinortha chlorophaea, Vig. App. Mem. Itqffl. p. 671; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 924; xii, p. 246; xiv, p. 199 ; xvi, p. 468; id. Cat. p. 76; Sorsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 692 ; Sharps, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 603, fig. 8; Walden, in BlytKs Birds Burm. p. 82; Hume Sr Dav. S. F. VI, p. 166; Hume,Cat. no. 216 quat.; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 120; SheiOey, Cat. B. M. xix, p. Pig. 67.—Head of if. chlaropJuBa, \. Coloration. Male. Head and neck above chestnut, back and wings rather darker, quills broadly tipped dusky ; rump and upper tail-coverts and tail dull black, with narrow grey cross-bars, not quite so close together on the tail; all tail-feathers broadly tipped white, the pale bars wanting near the white tip; chin, throat, and sides of head and neck pale chestnut, growing paler on the breast and then passing into dull brown with close faint cross-bars on the abdomen
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