1 . COCCTSTES. 223 



Lydenburg, E. Transvaal, Juae Shelley Coll. 



{J. flordge). 



Tali, Matabele-Land, Oct. 17 W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



(F. Gates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



Makalaka Country {Dr. Brad- Shelley Coll. 



shaio). 



Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar {Sir Shelley Coll. 



J. Kirk). 



Usambara Hills {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



Senimio, Niam-Niam Country, F. Bohndorfi [C.]. 



Feb. 



Fazog-lu, Abyssinia. Seebohm Coll. 

 Bogos-Land, Aug. {W. Jesse). 



Anseba VaUey, July. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



5. Coccystes serratus. 



Crested Black Cuckow, Lat/i. Gen. Si/u. i. pt. 2, p. 519 (1782). 

 Cuculus serratus, Sparrm. Mas. Carls, i. pi. iii. (17S9) ; Sundev. Krit. 



om Spurrm. p. 4 (1857) ; Grill, Zool. Antekn. p. 43 (18.59). 

 Cuculiis ater, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 415 (1788) ; Walden, Ibis, 18G9, 



p. 336. 

 Le Coucou Edolio, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 39, pi. 207 (1806) ; 



Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. p. 47 (1857). 

 Cuculus edolius, Cuv. Reyne Anim. i. p. 425 (1817) ; Less. Traite, 



p. 148 (1831). 

 Oxylophus edolius. Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 322 (1837) ; Layard, B, 



S.Afr.^. 252(1867). 

 Oxylophus serratus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 4G4 (1847) ; Blijth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Sue. p. 74 (1849) ; Bjj. Cornp. i. p. 102 (1850) ; Licltt. 



Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 78 (1854); Hartl. Om. West-Afr. p. 267 



(1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1869, p. 246 ; Ayres, t. c. p. 297 ; Gitrney, 



in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 226 (1872) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 25. 

 Coccystes serratus, Cab. S) Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 47 (1862); 



Sold. Mus. Fays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 45 (1863) : Gray, Ifand-l. B. ii. 



p. 220, no. 9064 (1870) ; Skarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 13 (1871) ; /(/. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 68 ; id. F. Z. S. 1873, p. 599 ; Layard, F. Z. S. 



1877, p. 465 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 408 ; Skarpe, ed. Layard's B. 



S. Afr. pp. 160, 810 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1885, p. 344 ; Norman, 



Ibis', 1888, p. 409. 



Adult male. Above and below black, glossed with green ; about 

 the basal fourth of the primaries white, forming a broad baud half 

 way across the wing : iris, bill, and legs black. Total length 13 

 inches, culmen I'l, wing 6-2, tail 7'3, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 13 

 inches, culmen 14, wing G, tail 7*8, tarsus 1*1. 



Hab. South Africa from the Cape Colony to Natal and the 

 Transvaal. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa {E. L. Layard). Tweeddale Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. South .Africa. Seebohm Coll. 



r. Ad. sk. South Africa. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



