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especially on the outer web, and, in some, probably younger, adults, with in- 

 complete bars of pale cinnamon on the outer webs, and always with incomplete 

 wedge-shaped bars of the same on the inner margins of the basal two-thirds of 

 the inner webs; median rectrices dusky blackish-brown with a faint coppery 

 sheen and narrowly tipped with pale brownish-white; the next pair similar on the 

 inner web, but banded on the outer web with pale cinnamon; the next pair with 

 the inner web blackish-brown banded with cinnamon and with the outer webs 

 largely white with a blackish-brown subterminal band immediately before the 

 white tip; the two outermost pairs wholly white with some incomplete dark- 

 brown bars on the inner web; lores, sides of face, auriculars, sides of neck, and 

 entire underparts from cliin to vent pale buffy-white to white, finely marked 

 with somewhat wavy, narrow bars of dusky-brown, some with a faint bronze 

 sheen; iris gray to pale yellowish-brown; eyelids greenish; bill dark brownish- 

 black above, dull yellow below; wing 92-97; tail 58-64; culmen from the base 

 15.5-17; tarsus 12.5-13.5 mm. 



Juvenal (males only seen, but sexes probably alike) : similar to adult female, 

 but with the feathers of the forehead, crown, occiput, nape, scapulars, and upper 

 wing coverts with cross bars; underparts as in females but slightly more brownish 

 in ground color; iris grayish-white to brownish-white; bill dark brown on maxilla, 

 yellow on mandible; feet yellow. 



References* 



Alexander, W. B, 



1925. Visit to Coomooboolaroo. Emu, vol. 24, pp. 236-237. 

 Ali, Salim a. 



1962. The birds of Sikkim. Pp. 414. 

 Armstrong, Edward A. 



1942. Bird display. Pp. 381, pis. 22. 

 Atkins, W. A. N. 



1922. Cuckoo carrying egg. Emu, vol. 21, p. 314. 

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1884. Additional notes on the ornithology of Transvaal. Ibis, ser. 5, vol. 2, 

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1945. A note on Lampromorpha klaasi (Stephens) and the care of its young. 

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Hist. Soc, vol. 17, pp. 678-696. 



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*Additional host data pertinent to the glossy cuckoos of southern Africa are 

 presented in the following paper that appeared too late for incorporation in this 

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Payne, R. B. and Payne, B. 



1967. Cuckoo hosts in southern Africa. 

 Ostrich, vol. 38, pp. 135-143. 



