242 CUCTTLID^. 



IV. p. 39, uote (1862) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Has, Ouculi, p. 13 (1864) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 216, no. 9009 ; Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 66 



(1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 245. 

 Cuculus affinis, "JIatj," Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xv. p. 18 (1846); 



Hume, Str, F. viii. p. 88 (1879) ; Wardlaw Rainsay, App. Tweedd. 



Orn. Works, p. 671 (1881). 

 Cuculus striatus, Gray, Cut. Manim. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. (1846, 



pt.) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 70 (1849) ; Horsf. S^- Moore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 703, pt. (1856-58) ; Sivinh. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 259, pt. ; Cab. i^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 37 (1862) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 328 (1862); id. Ibis, 1872, p. 13; Seebohm, Ibis, 



1878, p. 327 ; Blytk ^ Wald. B. Burmah, p. 79 (1875) ; Hume, 



Str. F. xi. p. 70 (1882). 

 Cuculus fasciatus, Burm. Verz. Mus. Halle, p. 54 (1860). 

 Nicoclarius coucretus, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyyod.-^. 6 (1854). 

 Cuculus swinhoei. Cab. ^y Heine, Mus. Hein. iy. p. 37, uote (1862) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 216, no. 9002. 

 Cuculus hyperytlirus {nee Gould), Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 265. 

 Cuculus michieauus, Swinh. Ann. 8f Mag. N. II. (4) vi. p. 153 (1870) ; 



J«yZ. iZ>2s, 1872, p. 13. 

 Cuculus sp., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoc. xiii. p. 457 (1878). 



Adult. Above dark brown, shading into slaty grey on the back 

 of the neck and head ; tail rather paler brown, with a broad sub- 

 terminal bUick bar and a white tip, all the feathers having about 

 five or sis white spots on their quills, increasing in size towards 

 the 'outer feathers, and most of them having white notches on their 

 inner webs ; throat grey, sometimes shaded with dusky on the sides 

 of the crop ; sides of the head and neck rather darker grey, more 

 like the crown ; remainder of the underparts buff or white, rather 

 broadly barred with black, the under tail-coverts being less 

 regularly marked and with fewer bars ; under surface of the wings 

 as in G. canorus : " iris brown ; bill horny, below lighter and tinted 

 with yellow towards the base ; gape and eyelids bright yellow ; 

 feet and legs duller yellow ; two front claws horny, two hind ones 

 yellow " (C. T. Bimjliam). Total length 12 inches, culmen 1, wing 8, 

 tail 6-3, tarsus O-S. 



Immature. Above brown, darker ou the head ; the crown and 

 neck thickly mottled with broad fulvous ends to the feathers ; 

 feathers ou the back and wings broadly tipped with rufous or buff; 

 tail very similar to that of the adult, but with the pale portion 

 more rufous ; beueatli buff, barred with black, and mottled with 

 grey on the throat in older specimens. 



Hah. Indian Peninsula and Cejdon, ranging through the Bur- 

 mese provinces to Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, as far as 

 Ternate in the Moluccas, north to China and Japan. 



a. Ad. sk. Ceylou. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 h,c. Ad. sk. Ceylou (-?/. Aemll). xweeddale Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Coonoor, Nilghiris, July 28. Hume Coll. 



e. Imm. sk. Malabar. Seebohm Coll. 



f. J ad. sk. X. Kauara, May 3 {II. E. Hume Coll. 



M. James). 



