6. CTTCTJLUS. 261 



/. c? ad. sk. Katberp (T. C. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 



(■/. Ad. sk. Kinrrwilliamstown. Major Trevelyan [P.], 



h, i, k. Ad. sk. Natal (Ay res). Sharpe Coll. 



l-o. Ad. et imm. Durban. Shelley Coll. 



sk. 

 p. Ad. sk. Newcastle (Reid). Shelley Coll. 



q. S ad. sk. Ramangwato, Nov. ( T. E. Slielley Coll. 



Bt(ckley). 

 r. Ad. sk. Zambesi". Dr. Bradshaw [C.]. 



s, t. $ imm. sk. Elephant Vley, Oct. 10 (C. ./. Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson). 

 u. c? juv. sk. Tomaja, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



August. 

 V. cJjuv.sk. Semmio, Niam-Niam Country, F. Bohndorft [P.]. 



March. 

 ic. Ad. sk. Denkera, Gold Coast (S. T. Sharpe Coll. 



UssJier). 

 .V. Ad. sk. Elmina {H. F. Blissett). Sharpe Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. Amamoo, May (JT. F. Blis- Sharpe Coll. 



sett). 



9. Cuculus pallidus. 



Columba pallida, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 270 (1801). 



Cuculus variejratus, VieiJl. N. Vict. viii. p. 224 (1817) ; id. Enc. 



Moth. p. 1.3;50 (1823) ; Pucher. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1852, p. 555. 

 Cuculus cinereus, Vieill. N. Diet. viii. p. 224 (1817) ; id. Enc. MMh. 



p. 1331 (1823) ; Pucher. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1852, p. 556. 

 Cuculus inornatus, Vie/. Si- Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 297 (1826) ; 



Gould, B. Atcstr. i\'. pi, 85 (1846) ; Reichb. Vog. NetihoU. ii. p. 115 



(1849). 

 Cuculus albostrigatus, Vig. S^ Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 298 (1826). 

 Cuculus poliogaster, S. 3Ii/ll. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volk. 



p. 236, note (1830-44) ; Cab. 8)- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 39, note 



(1862) ; Finsch, Xeu-Guinea, p. 159 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 216, no. 9011 (1870). 

 Cacomantis inornatus, Bp. Consp. Ar. i. p. 163 (1850). 

 Nicolarius poliogaster, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 6 (1854). 

 Cacomantis cinereus, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 6 (1854). 

 Heteroscenes pallidus, Cah. S)- Heine, Mus. Heiii. iv. p. 26 (1862). 

 Heteroscenes occidentalis, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 27, note 



(1862). 

 Cuculus pallidus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 26 (1864); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 216, no. 9013 (1870). 

 Cacomantis pallidus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. p. 615 (1865) ; Walden, 



Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 54 (1872) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1878, 



p. 457; id. Orn. Paptiasia,i. p. 331 (1880). 



Adult. Above ashy brown with a faint greenish gloss ; a white 

 patch of feathers on the nape, the wing-feathers mostl)- with narrow 

 whitish edges ; a white patch on the pinion-joints ; lateral tail- 

 coverts with partial white margins : tail-feathers tipped and notched 

 on both webs with white approaching the form of bars : beneath 

 uniform stone-colour, fading into white on the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts, the latter crossed by dusky bars : the lower breast, 

 especially the thigh-coverts, showing traces of obsolete dusky bars : 

 under wing-coverts whiter than the breast, freckled with dusky and 



