21 2 CUCTTLID^. 



6". With no white collar and no rufous on 

 the wings. 

 a'" . Throat and breast nearly uniform, 

 a*. Smaller : wing not exceeding 6*4 

 inches. 

 «'. Throat and underparts uniform 



bufly white jacobinus, p. 217. 



b^. Throat and undei-parts tinted 



with smoky grey hypopinarius, p. 220. 



6*. Larger : wing 6- 7 inches, tall 8'9. 

 Throat with a few indistinct shaft- 

 stripes to the feathers caroli, p. 221. 



b'". Throat very strongly streaked with 



black cafer, p. 221. 



b. Breast black like the rest of the plumage. 



d', AVith no white on the tail serratm, p. 223. 



e'. With a large white spot on the outer web 



of the two lateral tail-feathers albonotatus, p. 224. 



1. Coccystes glandarius. 



The Great Spotted Cuckoo, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 57, pi. 57 



Le Coucou d'Andalousie, Briss. Oni. iv. p. 126 (1760). 



Ouculus glandarius, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 167 (1760) ; Temm. Fl. 



CW. iii. pi. 414 (1826); Naum. Vog. Deutschl.\.^\. 130(lt<26); 



Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 154(1831) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. pt. iii. 



p. 294 (1835) ; Werner, Atlas Zygodactyles, SuppL pi. 2 ; Gould, 



B. Eur. iii. pi. 241 (1837) ; Nordm. in Demid. T'oy. Buss, merid. 



iii. p. 208 (1840) ; Schl. Bev. Crit. p. 51 (1844) ; Thompson, B. 



Irel. i. p. 364 (1849) ; Kewits. Ibis, 1859, p. 76, pi. ii. figs. 1, 2; 



Allen, Ibis, 1862, pp. 357, 358 ; Cochrane, IJns, 1863, p 361 ; 



Chambers, Ibis, 1863, p. 474 ; Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 50 ; Smith, 



Ibis, 1868, p. 448; Hartim/, Handb. Brit. B. p. 123 (1872); 



Wright, Ibis, 1874, p. 232 ; Danfurd, Ibis, 1878, p. 7 ; Seebohm, 



Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 386 (1884) ; Beichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 58. ^ 

 Coucou huppe noir et blanc, 3Iontb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 362 (1779). 

 Pisan Cuckow, Lath. Gen. 8yn. i. pt. 2, p. 520 (1782). 

 Bee Cuckoo, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v. App. p. 179 (1790). 

 Cuculus pisanus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 416 (1788). 

 Abyssinian Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppil. ii. p. 139 (1801). 

 Cuculus abyssinicus, Lath. hid. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxi (1801). 

 Cuculus melissophonus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 230 



(1817) ; Bonn, et VieUl. Enc. Meth. p. 1334 (1823). 

 Coccyzus pisanus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1349 (1823); 



Savign. Desc. Egypte, pi. iv. fig. 2 ; Audoiiin, E.vpl. Somm. p. 332 



(1825) ; BoiLV, Orn. Froveng. pi. 68 (1826). 

 Coccystes pisanus, Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 154 (1827 j. 

 Coccyzus glandarius, Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 154 (1827) ; Biipp. Neue 



Wirb., Vdg.-p.62 (1835). 

 Cucidus gracilis, Brehm, Viig. Deutschl. p. 154 (1831). 

 Cuculus macrurus, Brehm, t. c. p. 153. 

 Coccystes glandarius, Gloger, Handb. Vog. Eur. p. 451 (1834) ; 



Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 34 (1840); Miihle, Beitr. Orn. 

 Griechenl. p. 29 (.1844); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); 



