6. CT7CULTT8. 263 



p. 452 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 325 (18G2) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bos, 



Cuculi, p. 23 (pt., 1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 218, no. 9032 



(1879) ; Holdsivorth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 430 ; TValdm, Trans. Z. S. 



viii. p. 55 (1872) ; Let/f/e, His, 1874, p. 15 ; Hmne, 8t.r. F. ii. p. 472 



(1874); Le(j(ie, Ibis,'i675, p. 284; Fairbank, Str. F. iv. p. 255 



(187(5) ; Hume, Str. F. vi. p. 156 (1878) ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 207 



(1878) ; Hu77ie, Str. F. viii. p. 88 (1879) ; Leqye, B. Co/Ion, i. 



p. 233 (1880) ; Butler, Str. F. ix. pp. 54, 388 (1880) ; Davison, t. c. 



p. 350; Gates, Handb. B. Brit. Burmah,n. p. 107 (1883) ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1888, p. 198; Everett, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 226 ; B'Tiitehead, Ibis, 



1890, p. 46. 

 Cuculiis pravata, Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 (1822) ; Strickl. 



J. A. S. Bene/. 1844, p. 399, note ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 55 



(1872) ; Hinn^, Str. F. viii. p. 53 (1879). 

 Ciiculus rufovittatus, Drap. Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. iv. p. 568 



(1823); id. Diet. Class. Sc. Nat. iii. p. 143 (1838). 

 Cuculus himalayanus (nee Viy.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 220 (1840).' 

 Guciilus fasciolatus, <S'. Miill. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volk. p. 177, 



note (1839-44). 

 Cuculus venustus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 140 (1842). 

 Cacomantis fasciolatus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 104 (1850). 

 Polyphasia sonnerati, Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. 



p. 699 (1856-58). 

 Penthoceryx sonnerati, Cab. i§- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 16 (1862) ; 



Walde7i, Ibis, 1872, p. 367; A. Midi. J.f. O. 1882, p. 104. 

 Penthoceryx pravaius, Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 367 ; Salvad. Ucc. di 



Borneo, p. 63 (1874) ; id. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 185 (1879) ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 244 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 54 ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1890, p. 10. 

 Cacomantis sonnerati, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 55 (1872). 

 Ololygon tenuu'ostris, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 472 (1874), iii. p. 80 (1875). 

 Cacomantis pravatus, Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. 1886, p. 27. 



Adult. Above alternately barred with rufous and dusky bronze, 

 with a slight olive gloss ; forehead more or less spotted with white ; 

 a white patch on the carpal joint faintly barred with dusky ; tail 

 with rufous-shaded white ends ; centre feathers blackish, with a 

 number of rufous notches on both webs ; remaining feathers bright 

 rufous, with a broad subterminal dark bar and a variable number of 

 other bands ; sides of the head and underparts white, evenly marked 

 with narrow wavy bars of blackish brown, the lower breast and 

 under tail-coverts slightly tinted with rufous ; under wing-coverts 

 pale rufous buff, barred like the breast ; under surface of the quills 

 dark brown, with a large basal portion of their inner webs rufous 

 buif. more or less barred with dark brown ; bill black, with base of 

 lower mandible grey ; legs greenish grey. Total length 9*2 inches, 

 culmen 0"75, -nang 4*8, tail 4*8, tarsus 0-7. 



Immature. Above rufous ; the upjier back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts barred with olive-shaded black : a band of this colour runs 

 down the centres of some of the tail-feathers, and most of these 

 feathers have bold black spots near their ends and occasionally white 

 tips ; sides of tlie head and sides of the neck rufous like the crown ; 

 remainder of the underparts white, with the blackish bars on the 

 throat and chest broader than in the adult. 



