260 CUCTTLID^. 



8. Cuculus clamosus. 



Ouculus clamosus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. Sup^jl. -p. xxx(]801); Steph. 

 Gen. Zool. ix. p. 108 (1815) ; Cim. Rkjne An. i. p. 425, note (1817)*; 

 VieiU. Enc. Meth. p. 1331 (1823) : Des Murs in Lefebvre, Voy. 

 Abyss., Zool. p. 137 (1817); Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 416; Cab. 8f 

 Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 43 (pt., 1862); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Cuculi, p. 16 (1864) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 249 (1867) ; Chupm. 

 Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 408 (1868); Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 215, 

 110.8994(1870); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 784, clxiii (1871); 

 Gurney in Anderss. B. Damam L. p. 226 (1872) ; Salvad. Ann. 

 3Ius. Civ. Gen. 1873, p. 411; <S'/i«r/9e, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 587; Buck- 

 ley, Ibis, 1874, p. 367 ; .Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. pp. 150, 809 

 (1875-84); Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 141 (1877); Reichm. 

 J. f. O. 1877, p. 16 ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sac., Zool. xvii. p. 432 

 (1884); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 94; Shelley, P. Z. S. 

 1888, p. 42. 



Le Coucou criard, Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. v. p. 28, pis. 204, 205 (1806) ; 

 Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. p. 47 (1858). 



Ouculus nigricans, Swains. Zool. III. 2ud ser. i. pi. 7 (1829) ; id. B. 

 W. Afr. ii. p. 180 (1837) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 203 ; id. Orn. 

 W. Afr. p. 190 (1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246; Hartl. J.f O. 

 1861, p. 265 ; Cah. ^ Hehie, 31us. Hein. iv. p. 44, note (1862) ; 

 Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 237 ; Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 1884, p. 367 ; 

 id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 124 ; Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 597 ; Reichen. 

 /./. 0. 1887, p. 68. 



Surniculus nigricans, Bp. Consj). Av. i. p. 105 (1850). 



Cuculus clialybeus, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1862, p. 34. 



Coccystes nigricans. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 220, no. 9067 (1870). 



Coccystes serratus {nee Sparrm.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 13 (pt., 

 1871) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 68. 



Oxylophus serratus, Gurney in Anderss. B. Damara L. p. 226 (1872). 



Adult. Black with a deep greenish-blue gloss ; quills brown ; tail 

 narrowly tipped with white ; under surface duUer black inclining 

 to brown ; under tail-coverts with pale ends ; under wing-coverts 

 black ; quills brown, with confused white bars on their inner webs : 

 bill black; legs yellow with the claws black; irides dark brown. 

 Total length 12-2 inches, culmeu 0-9, wing 6-7, tail 6-3, tarsus 0-75. 



Immature (Tomaja). This specimen differs in the entire throat and 

 crop being whitish brown, shaded with rufous and regularly barred 

 with black ; remainder of the underparts, including the under 

 wing-coverts, white evenly barred with black. Total length 12*1 

 inches, wing 6-5, tail 6'3. 



A specimen from Semmio differs from the last in having the 

 throat almost uniform dusky grey, the sides of the breast smudged 

 with dusky grey, and the under wing-coverts white, mottled irregu- 

 larly with the same dusky shade. Total length 12-6 inches, wing 

 6-8, tail 6-2. 



Hah. Tropical Africa generally, excepting Abyssinia and Sene- 

 gambia. 

 a. S ad. ; b, c, S South Africa. Seebohm Coll. 



juv. sk. 

 d. Juv. sk. Cape Colony. Sliarpe Coll. 



('. S ad. sk. Eland's Post ( T. C. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 



