3. CALLIECHTHRU3. 225 



tinged with rufous-buff : under tail-coverts with a broad black band 

 across each feather ; bill black ; iris black ; feet yellow. Total 

 length 16-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 9, tail 8-6, tarsus 0-9. {Milne- 

 Edwards 4' (rraiididier.) 

 Hah, Madagascar. 



2. Pachycoccyx validus. 



Cuculus validus, Iteichen. Oni. Ctntmlhl. 1879, p. 139; id. Sf Schahio 

 J. f. O. 1879, p. 313 ; Finrher ^- Iteichen. t. c. p. 341. 



PachVcoccvx validus, Cah. J. f. O. 1882, p. 2.30; Fischer, J. f. O. 

 188.5, p.' 124 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 42. 



Coccystes brazzoe, Ousf. Le Naturaliste, iii. p. 299 (1886) ; Norman, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 407. 



Adult (tyi>e of Coeajstes brazzn. Oust.). Above brownish black 

 with a greenish-blue gloss, the white bases of the feathers showing 

 through on the nape and back of the neck ; the lateral upper tail- 

 coverts notched or partially barred with white ; the ends of all but 

 the two centre tail-feathers white ; tail beneath with a broad sub- 

 terminal bar and about three partial bars on a dusky silvery ground ; 

 under surface of the body white, with a dusky shade on the sides of 

 the breast ; under tail -coverts with three broad, nearly perfect, bars ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; under surface of the quills dusky silvery 

 grey, inclining to white towards the base of the inner webs ; nostrils 

 linear and horizontal : bill broad and black, with the base of the 

 upper and most of the lower mandible yeUow ; cere, eyelids, and feet 

 yellow {J. Be Brazza). Total length 13 inches, culmen 0-9, -jving 

 8-4, tail 8-3, tarsus 0'-85. 



Hah. From the interior of Gaboon to Equatorial Africa, and 

 East Africa. 



a. Tull. sk. Gaboon. P. B. DuChalllu, Esq. [C.]. 



b. 9 juv. sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



Auff. 2, 1883. 



3. CALLIECHTHRUS. ,,. 



Type. 

 Simotes, Bli/th, Journ. As. Soc. xv. p. 19 (1846, nee 



Fischer, 1829, Mamni.) C. leucolophus. 



Callieclitlnus, Cab. Si- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 31, note 



(lyG2) C. leucolophus. 



Range. New Guinea ; Salwati ; Waigiou ; Mysol. 

 1. Calliechthrus leucolophus. 



Cuculus leucolophus, S. Miill. I'erh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22 (1839- 

 44) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 204, pi. iii. fig. 33 (1857) ; Grai/, 

 P. Z. S. 18(38. p. l'J."i; id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Neiv Guinea, pp.44, 60 

 (18o9) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 ; Scfd. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, 

 p. 16 (18(54) ; Grail, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 216, no. 9012 (1870) ; Bec- 

 cari, Ann. Mus, Civic. Getiov. vii. p. 715 (1875) ; id. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 253. 

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