232 ctrcuLiD^. 



1. Hierococcyx sparverioides. 



P Coucou a ventre rayc? de I'lsle de Panay, Sonti. Voy. Nouv. Guin. i. 

 p. 120, pi. 79 (1776). 



? Coucou brun et jaune a ventre rave, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. 

 p. 379(1779). 



? Uuculus flaviventris. Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89 {ex 

 Sonn. 1786); Strickl. J. A. S. Beng. 1844, p. 390, note. 



? Cuculus radiatus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 420 (e.v Sonn. 178S). 



Cuculus sparveroides, Viff. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 173; Gould, Cent. 

 Himal. B. pi. 53 (1832) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 898 (1842), 

 xii. p. 240 (1843) ; Bodi/s. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. ^- B. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 120(1846); BIyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. p. 70 (1849); Schl. Mua. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 15 

 (pt., 1864) ; David S,- Oust. Ois. Chine, t^. 63 (1877); Blakiston, Ihis, 

 1878, p. 228. 



Hierococcyx sparveroides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 104 (1850) ; Horsf. Sf 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 699 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 3.31 (1862); Blyth,Ihis, 1866, p. 362 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 14; 

 Hume, Nests 8f Eygs Ind. B. p. 135 (1873); id. Sir. F. iii. p. 80 

 (1876) ; Armstrong, Sfr. F. iv. p. 311 (1876) ; Tacz. J. f. O. 1876, 

 p. 201 ; Hume c^ Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 157 ^1878) ; Ball, Sfr. F. 

 vii. p. 207 (1878) ; Hane, Str. F. viii. pp. 54, 89 (1879) ; Scully, 

 t. c. p. 256 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 167 (1880) ; Hume, t. c. p. 248 ; 

 Davison, Sfr. F. x. p. 359 ; Oates, Handb. B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 108 

 (1883); Marshall, Ihis, 1884, p. 411; A. Midi. J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 157 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1887, p. 581 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 11; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. ii. p. 384 

 (1890). 



Cuculus strennus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 90 ; id. B. Asia, vi. pi. 42 

 (1856) ; Blyfh, Ibis, 1866, p. 362. 



Hierococcyx sparverinus, Cab. <§' Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 28, note 

 (1862). 



Hierococcyx strenuus, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 28, note 

 (1S62) ;' Hu7ne, Pr. A. S. Beng. 1872, p. 71 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. 

 ix.p. 161 (1875); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 327; Blasim, Ornis, 

 ii. p. 306 (1888) ; Everett, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 225 ; Whitehead, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 46. 



Adult. Above brown with a bronzj- gloss, changing gradually 

 into grey on the back of the neck and crown ; the outer tail- 

 eoverts barred with white, and the longest ones often with darker 

 ends and narrow pale edges ; tail with about five distinct dark bars 

 and narrow pale tips to the feathers, seldom much shaded with 

 rnfoijs ; sides of the head and chin grey, with a broad white band 

 from the front of the eye to the white on the throat, separating the 

 grey of the head from the chin ; upper throat white, changing on 

 the lower throat and front of the chest into rufous, and the whole 

 mottled with pale grey ; remainder of the underparts white, with 

 the breast down to the thighs broadly barred with dusky brown 

 and partially washed with rufous ; under wing-coverts white, 

 shaded with rufous ; quills dusky brown with numerous white or 

 buff partial bars on their inner webs : " bill black, with the base of 

 the lower mandible pale green ; iris, eyelids, legs, and claws bright 

 gamboge-yellow " ( )V. Davison). Total length 15"o inches, culmcn 

 I'l, wing S'l, tail 7'5, tarsus 1. 



