f). CUCTJLtrS 



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a. Ad. St. 

 b-e. Ad. sk. 

 ./, (J. Ad. sk. 

 h. Imm. St. 

 i,h. Ad.sk. 

 1, 111. Ad. sli. 

 w, o. c? ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 

 q. Ad. sk. 

 r. Ad. sk. 



s. cj ad. sk. 



t. Imm. sk. 

 M, ?7, xc. Ad. sk. 



•f, 2/, a. Ad. sk. 

 «'. c? ad. sk. 



h'. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad.sk. 

 d' , e . Imm. sk. 

 /'. Ad. sk. 

 g'-V. Ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



South Africa. 



South Africa {Laijard). 



South Africa. 



Capo Colony. 



Cape Colony. 



Cape Town {Butler). 



Kuysna, Dec. 12 (C. J. 



Andersson). 

 Fort Beaufort. 

 Kingwilliamstown. 

 Durban, Natal, Oct. {T. 



Ayres). 

 Newcastle, Sept. {E. A. 



Butler). 

 Benguela. 

 Landana, Congo (Dr. Lu- 



can). 

 Mamboio {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Lado, Equatorial Africa 



{Emin Pasha). 

 Semmio, Niam-Niam 



Country, Sept. 

 Cape Coast Castle. 

 Gold Coast {Auhinn). 

 Accra (Haynes). 

 Fantee. 



Purchased. 

 Sliarpe Coll. 

 Seebohni Coll. 

 (xeneralHardwicke [P. 1. 

 F. Thackeray, Esq. [P.J. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharps Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Major Trevelyan [P.]. 



Shelley CoU. 



SheUey Coll. 



Monteiro Coll.'' 

 SheUey CoU. 



Shelley CoU. 

 SheUey Coll. 



F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



L. Eraser [C.]. 

 Shelley CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



7. Cuculus gabonensis. 



Cuculus gaboneusis, Lafr. Rev. et May. Zool. ]8o3, p. 60; Hartl. 

 J. f. O. 1854, p. 202 ; /. c^- E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 

 p. 177 ; Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 189 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. 

 Ac. 1859, p. 142 ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 265 ; DuCkaillu, Eq. Afr. 

 p. 473 (1861) ; Cah. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 42, note (1862) ; 

 Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 73 (1878) ; Sharpe, 

 P.Z.S. 1873, p. 584; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 16; Oust. N.Arch. 

 Mus. (2) ii. p. 126 (1879). 



Adult. Above glossy blue-black; centre tail-feathers uniform 

 blue-black tipped with white, the outer feathers having a few white 

 shaft-spots and the same number of white notches on their inner 

 margins ; sides of the head grey ; chin and entire throat deep 

 chestnut ; breast buff, with broad jet-black bauds and sometimes 

 with a broader black band across the abdomen between the thighs ; 

 under tail-coverts uniform buff, or occasionaUy with a few broad 

 black partial bars : under wing-coverts buffy white, boldly barred 

 or mottled with black; quiUs dark brown, with some partial bars of 

 white and a uniform white centre to the Aving at the base of the 

 quills : bill black, legs yellow. Total length 12-G inches, culmen 

 0"9, wing ()-5, tail 6-4, tarsus 0*7. 



Hub. West Africa from Gaboon to the Congo. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad.sk. 



c. d. cJ ad. sk 



Gaboon. 

 Ogowe River. 

 Luudauu, Congo, Aii^ 



Purchased. 



II. T. AnseU,Esq.[P.]. 



SheUey CoU. 



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