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CUCULIDJE. 



yellowish a the base of the lower mandible ; legs leaden grey. 

 Total length 16 inches, ciilmen 1-2, wing 8-5, tail 8-8, tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female. Appears to resemble the male, but probably takes 

 a considerable time to gain the full plumage, as most of the adult 

 hen birds have a tinge of chestnut on the wing, though uot so 

 strongly developed as in the young birds. Total length 15-4 

 inches, culmen 1-2, wiug 7-7, tail 8-8, tarsus 1-2. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the upper half of 

 the head black, the greater portion of the quills chestnut, and the 

 throat darker and shaded with rufous. 



Mab. Southern and Central Europe, as far east as Persia, 

 wintering in Africa. 



a. cj ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 

 0, c? juv. sk. 

 d. S nd. sk. 

 f. 5 ad. sk. 



/: d iid. sk. 



ff, (S ad. sk. 



h. Ad. sk. 



i, k, I. (S ad. ; tn, 



n, o. 2 ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 p. d ad. sk. 



fj. Ad. sk. 

 r. Juv. sk. 



s. Juv. sk. 



t. Ad. sk. 



V. Ad. sk. 



V. 2 juv. sk. 

 w. Ad. sk. 



x-a'. cJ ad. ; d'- 

 e'. 2 ad.;/',^', 

 h'. Juv. sk. 



i'-m'. cS ad.sk 



«'. Skeleton. 



Seville, Spain, May 13 {Ruiz). 

 Aranjuez, Spain, May. 

 Tangier (Favier). 

 Tangier, March 20 (G. E. S.). 

 Ain Moudijat, Algeria, June 5 



(0. Salmi). 

 Baba Tekesei, A=ia Minor, 



May 15 (T. Eohson). 

 Plain of Gennesareth. 

 Midiau. 

 Egypt, March (G. E. S.). 



Jur Gattas, Upper White Nile, 



Nov. 

 River Gambia. 

 Connor's Hill, Cape Coast, 



Dec. {H. T. Ussher). 

 Accra, Feb. 12 (7". E. Buck- 

 ley). 

 Near Rustenberg, Eastern 



Transvaal. 

 Modder River, Orange Free 



State. 

 Bloemfonteiii, Jan. 5. 

 Kingwillianistown, British 



Caffraria. 

 Otjimhinque, Damara-Land, 



Dec, Jan., March (f. J. 



A^xdersson). 

 Ondonpfa, Ovampo-Land, Nov. | 



(C. J, Andersson). J 



Sbarpe Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



Canon Tristram [C.J. 

 Sir R. Burton [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Sbarpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



F. A. Ban-att, Esq. 



[C] 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[C] 

 Dr. Exton [P.]. 

 Major 11. Trevelyan 



[P.]. 



Sharpe and Shelley 

 Colls. 



Purchased. 



2. Coccystes coromandus. 



Le Coucou hupe de Coromandol, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 147, pi. xi. A. fig. 1 



(17G0). 

 Cuculus coromandus, Linn. St/st. Nat. i. p. 171 (1766). 

 Coucou hupi>5 de Coromaudel, Dauhent. PL Enl. vi. pi. 274 (ex 



Briss,). 



