256 cucuLiD^. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 215, no. 8990 ; Hume, Nests i,- Eyys hid. B. p. 135 



(1873) ; Milne-Edw. S,- Grand. Hist. Madaq. Ois., Atlas, i. pi. 66 



(1876); Fairbanli,8tr.F.i\.^. 2-55 (1876); David ^- Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 66 (1877) ; Davidson ^ Wenden, Sir. F. yn. p. 78 (1878) ; 



Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 88 (1879) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 394 ; Leqf/e, 



B. Ceylon, p. 231 (1880) ; Vidal, Sfr. F. ix. p. 54 (1880) ; Butler, 



t. c. p. 388 ; Davison, Str. F. x. p. 299 (1881) ; Shar^je, Ibis, 1888, 



p. 394 ; Oates, Ibis, 1889, p. 357 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, p. 11. 

 Cuculus himalayanus vel bharoviis, Hode/x. Zoo/. Misc. p. 85 (1831). 

 Cuculus canorus (7iec Linn.), Desjard. P. Z. S. 1832, p. Ill ; Hartl. 



Ann. Sf May. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 391 (1848) ; id. J.f. 0. 1860, p. 110 ; 



Vinson,' Voy. Maday. p. 88 (1865) ; Verr. Ann. B., Voy. Madag. 



Vinson, p. 3 (1865). 

 Le PigeoD ramier gris et verdatre, Sganzin, Mem. Sac. Mus. Hist. 



Nat. Strasboiirg, 1840, p. 40. 

 Hierococcyx poliocephalus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 104 (1850). 

 Cuculus bartlettii, Layard, Aiin. Sj- May. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 



p. 452 (1854). 

 Nicoclariu.s tenuirostris {nee Less.), Bp. Consp. Vol. Zi/yod. p. 6 



(1854). 

 Cuculus rocbii, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 224: Bach ^- Newton, Ibis, 



1863, p. 106 ; F. Neiotou, t. c. p. 453 ; Poll. Ned. Tijdsch. v. d. 



Dierk. p. 300 (1863) ; Sehl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424 ; Schl S,- Poll. 



Faun. Madaq. ii. Ois. p. 5.3 (1868) : Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. ]>. 215, 



no. 8992 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 399, 1873, p. 582; Hartl. Viiq. 



Maday. p. 253 (1877) ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 771. 

 Cuculus clamosus (nee Lath.), Coqiierel, Bull. Soc. Accl. Bunion, ii. 



p. 10 (1864). 

 Cuculus tamsuicus, Sivinh. Ibis, 1865, p. 108. 

 Cuculus himalayanus {nee l^iq.), Grand. Rev. et May. Zool. 1867, 



p. 418; Poll. Fatui. Maday'. Brtat. Voy. i. p. 198 (1877). 

 Cuculus sp. inc., Blakiston >.y Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 227. 

 Cuculus poliocephalus, vav. rochii, Milne-Edw. ^-Grand. Hist. Maday., 



Ois. i. p. 176 (1879). 

 Cuculus leptodetus (nee Cah.), Dubois, Btdl. Mus. Hist. Nat. Bely. 



iv. p. 147 (1886). 

 Cuculus stormsi, Dubois, Btdl. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belq. v. p. 3, pi. 2 



(1887). 



Aditlt male. Very similar in plumage to C. canorus, but with the 

 upper parts darker and with the bars on the breast rather broader 

 and blacker. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-75, wing (>-4, tail 5*8, 

 tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, only with a slight 

 rufous-butf shade at the base of the grey neck. Total length 9-4 

 inches, eulmen 0'7, wing oS, tail 5, tarsus 0-6. 



Rufous plumage. Very similar to that of C. canorus, but generally 

 darker. Upper half of the head, back of the neck, lower back, and 

 upper tail-coverts uniform rufous, as in C. canorus, or more rarely 

 with dark bars, as in C. intermedius. Underparts whitish, with 

 broad black bars, and washed with rufous on the throat, most strongly 

 so on the sides. " Legs, feet, eyelids, and base of lower mandible 

 lemon-yellow ; bill blackish brown, lower mandible brownish yellow ; 

 gape orange-red ; claws pale " (E. A. Butler). 



Ncstliny. Similar to that of C. iatermedlus. 



