4. SURNICUL08. 227 



b. Head, neck, back, and uiiderparts velvety 

 black, with scarcely any gloss. 



«'. Tail forked. Wing 5-5 inches muschenbroeki, p. 230. 



b'. Tail not forked. Wing -47 velutiiius, p. 2:M). 



1 . Surniculus lugubris. 



Cucidus lugubris, Ilorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 (1820) ; id. Zool. 



Ren. Java, pi. 58 (1824); S. MM. Verh. Land- en Volk. p. 178 



(1839-44); Less. Traite Orn. p. lol (1831) ; id. in Belany. Voij. 



Ind. Orient, p. 231 (1834); Bhjth, J. A. S. Benrj. 1842, p. 916; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 10.) (18.10) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cucnli, p. 28 



(1804) ; Felz. Novara Iteis., Viiff. p. 104 (1865) ; Gray, Hnnd-l. B. 



ii. p. 219, no. 90o2 (1870). 

 Cuculus albopunctulatus, Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. iv. p. 570 



(1823). 

 Cuculus albopimctatus, Horsf. Zool. Res. Java, pi. — (1824). 

 Pseudornis dicruroides, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 353. no. 502 ; id. J. A. S. Beng. 1839, p. 136 ; id. in Gray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^ B. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 



p. 119 (1846). 

 Pseudornis lugubris, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. 1839, p. 137. 

 Cuculus dicruroides, Jerd. Madras Jouni. x. p. 221 (1840) ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. Beng. 1842, p. 915, 1843, p. 244 ; Kelaart, Cat. Prodr. 



App. p. 60 (1853); Layard, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 453 



(1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 219, no. 9051 (1870). 

 Polyphasia lugubris, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. 1843, p. 244. 

 Surniculus dicruroides, Blyth, Cat. B. 3[us. As. Soc. 1849, p. 72 ; 



Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. ii. p. 696 (1856) ; Jerd. 



B. India, i. p. 336 (1862) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 394 ; Holds- 

 worth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 431 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 472 ; David 



(^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 61 (1877). 

 Surniculus lugubris, Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 72 (1849); 



Horsf. Si- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 695 (1856) ; Sclat. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 209 ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 368 ; .S'«/i-«f/. Ucc. di 



Borneo, p. 63 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 8 ; Tiveeddale, t. c. 



p. 287; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 613; Hume ^- Davison, Str. F. vi. 



pp. 159, 502 (1878); Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 207 (1878); Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, p. 184 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 244; id. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 328 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 54, 89 (1879) ; 



Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 243 (1880) ; Hutne, Str. F. ix. p. 248 (1880) ; 



Wardlaw Ramsay, Tiveeddale's Orn. Works, App. p. 656 (1881); 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792 ; Oates, Handb. B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 112 



(1883); Blasius, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. If'ien, xxxiii. p. 30 (1883) ; 



Biittik. Notes Leriden 3Ius. 1886, p. 27; Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 394, 



1890, p. 10 ; Whitehead, t. c. p. 46. 

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



A. Mull. J.f. O.y&^-l, p. 404. 

 Cacangelus dicruroides, Cab. (§• Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 18, note 



(1862). 

 Surniculus velutinus {nee Sharpe), Tiveeddale, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 69. 



Adult. ]?liick, with a deep green gloss, brightest on the back, 

 wings, and tail, and slightly more purple on the head and neck ; on 

 the nape a few white feathers partially hidden ; upper tail-coverts 

 with some white spots next to their shafts ; beneath black, not 

 quite so brightly glossed with green ; the hinder half of the thigha 



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