Cuculus malayanus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2,
286.
Chalcococcyx malayanus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19,
298; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 162; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 62.
Basilan (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Mindanao (Everett,
Celestino); Negros (Steere); Tawi Tawi (Everett). Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor, Flores, Celebes, New Guinea,
Solomon Islands, northern Australia.
Adult female.--Above including wing and tail dark metallic
bronze-green, mixed with dark purple, the latter color more pronounced
on head and neck; some small white spots on lores and above and below
eyes; below white, barred with coppery bronze; throat, fore breast,
and sides of neck heavily washed with rich rusty brown which nearly
obliterates the white and bronze bars; under wing-coverts and axillars
barred with white and bronze; under surface of wing ashy brown; on
inner web near the base of each quill a white patch, followed by a
larger rufous patch forming a diagonal double band; rectrices rufous,
outermost pair barred with black and white and with white tips; next
two pairs barred with black and with white tips; fourth pair ashy
brown, barred with rufous on outer webs and with tips subterminally
blackish; middle pair ashy brown with obsolete subterminal bars. Iris
red; bill black, dark red at base; feet dark green. Length, 160;
wing, 99; tail, 66; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 12. The
specimen described above was taken in Basilan. Male similar?
"Bill blackish; iris burnt sienna color; orbital ring fine vermilion;
feet very dark lead-gray." (Everett.)
Genus EUDYNAMYS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826.
Adult male entirely black; adult female conspicuously barred and
spotted; feet stout; tail long, its feathers broad and rounded at
their tips.
Species.
a1. Plumage black (males).
b1. Smaller; wing, 200 mm. or less. ... honorata (p. 378);
mindanensis (p. 379)
b2. Larger; wing, 225 mm. or more. ... frater (p. 379)
a2. Plumage barred (females).
b1. Smaller; wing, 200 mm. or less.
c1. Bars on abdomen broader. ... honorata (p. 378)
c2. Bars on abdomen narrower. ... mindanensis (p. 379)
b2. Larger; wing, 225 mm. or more. ... frater (p. 379)