Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 305 
Coucou tacheté de Mindanao. Pi. Enl. 277. 
Mindanao Cuckoo. Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 283. no. 27. 
These birds, which now generally are considered the sexes of 
one species, appear to be but accidental visitors in the colony. 
At least Mr. Caley informs us that he never met with more than 
two individuals of the male and one of the female. The male 
specimen in the Society’s collection seems to be a young bird 
changing to the adult plumage. It has several pale ferruginous 
feathers on the lower parts of the body, and it has a single fer- 
ruginous feather striated with black among the secondary quill- 
feathers of the right wing, which forms a striking contrast with 
the deep black of the rest. The corresponding feather on the 
left wing was lost, as Mr. Caley tells us, by the shot striking 
the wing. This bird had berries of Cassytha in its stomach. 
The native name of the male is Cowhat’; of the female, Bel- 
linging. 
2. Fuinpersiz. Lath. MSS. Eud. suprà brunnescenti-fusco 
nitescens ferrugineo-luteo variegatus, capite ferrugineo-luteo, 
` sincipite strigáque pone subtusque oculos nigro-nitescentibus ; 
subtus ferrugineo-luteus, fasciis gracilibus fuscis undulatus. 
Caput ferrugineo-luteum ; sincipite, strigà postoculari ad sca- 
pulares descendente, strigAque suboculari gulam utrinque 
marginante nigro-nitescentibus. Dorsum, scapularesque ni- 
tidè brunnescenti-fusce, ferrugineo-luteo parcè punctatæ 
fasciateque. Tectrices fasciis latis ferrugineo-luteis notate. 
 Remiges utrinque ferrugineo-luteo fasciatæ, fasciis internis 
apice albidis. —Rectrices lunulis ferrugineo-luteis fasciate. - 
Gula, pectus, abdomen, femorum tectrices, uropygiumque 
ferrugineo-luteæ, fasciis gracilibus parce undulatæ. Ros- 
trum, pedesque fusci, illo apice pallido. Longitudo corpo- 
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