226 cucuLiD^. 



Simotes albi vertex, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. pp. 15, 283 (1846) ; 



id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 75 (1849). 

 Cuculus albivertex, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 2-3 (1849). 

 Simotes leucolophus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. xix (1852). 

 Hierococcyx leiicolophus, <S^. MilU. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 233, 



note (1839-44) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 104 (18-50) ; id. Consp. Volucr. 



Zyyod. p. 7 (1854) ; Sd. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. ii. p. 166 (18-58) ; 



Eosenh. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 229 (1863) ; id. 



J. f. O. 1864, p. 117! 

 Calliechthrus leucoloplius, Cab. ^' Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. .31, note 



(1862) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torin. xiii. p. 313 (1878) ; id. Ann. 



Mus. Civic. Genov. xiii. p. 461 (1878) ; D^ Albert. ^- Salvad. op. cit. 



xiv. p. 43 (1879) ; Salvad. Oni. Papuasia etc. i. p. 358 (1880) ; 



Sharpe in GonhTs B. Neiv Guinea, iv. pi. 42 (1887). 

 EudjTiamis leucolophus, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 159 (1865). 



Adult male. Black with a strong greenish-blue gloss, a broad 

 taedian band of white along the crown and nape ; tail-feathers 

 black, narrowly tipped with white ; breast duller black, tinged with 

 grey, the throat, flanks, and under tail-coverts strongly washed with 

 a greenish-blue gloss. Total length 11"5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 

 6'5, tail o'S, tarsus O'So. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male ; "bill, legs, and 

 feet black ; iris brown " {H. 0. Forbes). Total length 12-6 inches, 

 culmen 1-3, wing 6*7, tail 6-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Immature birds have some remains of white barring on the chest 

 and have the under wing-coverts slightly barred with white. 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 



Astrolabe Mts., S.E. New A. Goldie [C.]. 



Guinea. 



Sogere district, Astrolabe Mts. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



East Cape, S.E. New Guinea. K. Hunstein [C.]. 



4. SURNICULUS. 



Tjpe. 



Surniculus, Less. Trade Orn. p. 151 (1831) S. lugubris. 



Pseudornis, Hodys. J. A. S. Beng. viii. p. 136 (1839) . . S. lugubris. 

 Cacangelus, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 17 (1862) . . S. lugubris. 



Ranr/e. Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula, extending eastward 

 through the Burmese countries to South China, and south through 

 the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippine 

 Islands, and Batchian in the Moluccas. 



Key to the Species. 



Crown aud entire back with a strong greenish- 

 blue gloss. Underparts more dusky and less 

 glossed ; adults uniform ; young spotted with 

 white luyubris, p. 227. 



