340. EUDYNAMYS HONORATA (Linnæus).
INDIAN KOEL.

Palawan (Platen, Steere Exp.). Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Burmese Provinces, Andaman Islands, Ceylon, China, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Flores.

“Adult male.—Entire plumage black, very strongly glossed with bluish green. ‘Iris crimson; bill pale bluish green, dusky round the nostrils; legs and feet leaden blue.’ (Legge.) Length, 386; culmen, 30; wing, 193; tail, 200; tarsus, 30.

“Adult female.—Above blackish brown, with an olive gloss; crown, sides of the head, and back of the neck very strongly mottled with broad white shaft-stripes, which are generally shaded toward the forehead with rufous; back and wing-coverts spotted with white; quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail barred with white; beneath white, feathers of the throat with broad black sides, remainder of the under surface of the body and the under wing-coverts with rather broad black angular bars; under surface of the quills brown, partially barred with white. ‘Iris crimson; legs and feet plumbeous; bill greenish gray, gape pinkish flesh-color.’ (Butler.) Length, 406; culmen, 30; wing, 190; tail, 198; tarsus, 33.

“Nestling.—Entirely greenish black like the adult male.

“The scarcely full-grown birds have more or less marking on the tail-feathers and the under surface of the quills, and have numerous fulvous spots on the body-feathers. In more than one specimen the breast and abdomen are thickly mottled with buff markings.