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Show 606 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE CUCULIDAE [June 17, smoothness of the bare face, while the feathers descend over the lores, thereby overhanging the nostril. To true Phcenicophaes it is allied by the" shape of the nostrils, but differs in its smooth face and feathered lores, while it even shows slight indications of a nasal groove, which is an approach to Rhinococcyx. Genus 9. ZANCLOSTOMUS. Type. Zanclostomus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 323 (1837) Z. javanicus, Fig. 13. Head of Zanclostomus javanicus. This genus has a long and slender bill compared with the other members of the subfamily, much widened at the base, where it is broader than it is high. The lores and sides of face are feathered, much reducing the bare space, which is not rough. Genus 10. POLIOCOCCYX, gen. nov. The type of this genus is P. sumatranus, which differs from all the others in its curiously ascending nostrils. It much resembles Fig. 14. Head of Poliococcyx sumatranus. R. diardi in general characters, even to the narrow line of loral feathers skirting the base of the beak and separating the latter from the bare face. Genus 11. CEUTHMOCHARES. Ceuthmochares, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. Type. p. 60 (1862) C. aeneus. |