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Show 394 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. [May 2, 449. EUDYNAMIS MACULATA (Gmel.). Cuculus maculatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1788, i. p. 415. Eudynamis orientalis, Ibis, 1861, p. 46, 1866, p. 131, 1867, p. 59; P.Z. S. 1863, p. 264. Summers and breeds about Canton ; occurs occasionally as high as Amoy. 450. EUDYNAMIS MALAYANA, Cab. & Heine; Swinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 231. Plentiful in Hainan. 451. COCCYSTES COROMANDUS (L.). Cuculus coromandus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 171. Coccystes coromandus, var. fuliginiventer, Ibis, 1867, p. 227. Amoy. A specimen from Malacca has the abdomen nearly as dusky as the bird procured at Amoy. 452. SURNICULUS DICRUROIDES (Hodgs.). Pseudornis dicruroides, Hodgs. ; J. A. S. Beng. viii. 1839, p. 136. Procured by me near Chungkingfoo, in Szechuen, in May. 453. CACOMANTIS TENUIROSTRIS (J. E. Gray), Ind. Zool ii 1833, t. 34, f. 1. Polyphasia tenuirostris, Ibis, 1870, p. 230; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 266. Cuculus tenuirostris, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 62, 1861, p. 46. Comes to South China to breed ; occurred also in Hainan. Chinese specimens appear to agree with some procured in the neighbourhood of Calcutta; and Lord Walden identifies it with the Burmese species. 454. CHRYSOCOCCYX HODGSONI, Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E.LC. ii. p. 705 ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 338. Lampromorpha plagosus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (Mai 1867) pp. 169, 173. Forwarded by Monseigneur Perny to the Paris Museum from Western China. 455. CUCULUS SPARVEROIDES, Vigors, P. Z.S. 1831. p. 173; Gould, C. of B. pl. 53 ; V. Schrenck, Amur-Land, i. p. 24, t. 10. Hierococcyxfugax, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 265. Very common in spring in the hilly region of the Upper Yangtsze, as far west as Moupin. Has occurred also in Amoorland. A noisy bird, crying loudly from the tops of trees, often during the night. Its note resembles somewhat that of the Koel, for which it was mistaken by Capt. Blakiston's party on the Yangtsze. The Koel does not occur in that region. |