Oeder PIOARI^.. 



Superfamily CUCULOIDE^. 



Family CUCULIDiE. 



101. Cuculus canorus telephonus (Heine). 



1826. — ? Cuculvs horealia Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., I, p. 442 (part). 



1861. — Cuculus striatus Swinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 259 (part ; nee Drap.). 



1862. — ? Cuculus swinhoei Cab., Mus. Hein., IV, i, p. 39 {part, nom. nud.). 



1863. — Cuculus telephonus Heine, Joiiru. f. Orn., 1863, p. 352. 



1871.— Cuculus canorus Swinh., P. Z. S., 1871, p. 395.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 



p. 227.— lid., Trans. As. Soc. Japan, VIII, 1880, p. 205.— ltd., ibid., X, 1882, 



p. 130. 

 1872. — ? Cuculus canorinus Cab., J. f. Orn., 1872, p. 236. — Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, 1876, p. 237. 

 1875. — Cuculus canorinus Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 451. — Stejneger, Naturen, 1882, p. 



182.— Id., Pr. U. S.Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 71 (^jarO-— Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, 1882, p. 395.— Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 368. 



Most of the English writers agree that they have not been able to 

 separate the Eastern Asiatic bird from Cuculus canorus of Europe, while 

 Cabanis, I. c, expressly states as his view, that the latter does not occur 

 in Eastern Asia at all. 



The birds which I have collected are easily enough distinguishable 

 from European specimens, and it seems to be the rule that the eastern 

 bird has finer and narrower, dark bars on the lower surface; but as 

 intergradation has been satisfactorily proved, the eastern form can 

 only be designated as a race. 



I am rather doubtful whether Cabanis's canorinus of 1872 (from Bai- 

 cal), and the birds (from Eastern Siberia generally), designated by Ta- 

 ezanowski by the same name, really belong to our race. The latter 

 author {I. c.) de^ribes his specimens as differing from the European 

 form "par les bandes des parties inferieures du corps plus fines etplus 

 nomhreuses, et les taches blanches sur les rectrices plus petites, elles man- 

 quent compldtement sur les mediaiies, sur les suivantes elles sont a peine 

 distinctes; les subcaudales sont plus rayees de fonc6." Now it is the 

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