7. OERCOCOCCYX. 8. CACOMANTTS. 265 



a\ Ad. sk. Lumbidan. Governor Ussher 



[C.]. 

 b^,c\ AA.sk. Labuan. SirHughLow[C.]. 



d\ Imm. sk. Timor. Tweeddale Coll. 



7. CERCOCOCCYX. 

 Cercococcyx, Cah. J.f. O. 1882, p. 2.30 C. mechowi. 



1. Cercococcyx mechowi. 



Cercococcyx mechowi, Cab. J. f. O. 1882, p. 230. 



Above brownish grey, with a greenish gloss on the back of the 

 neck and mantle ; greater wing-coverts and qnills with the outer 

 webs reddish brown, the inner webs blotched with white. Beneath 

 whitish, washed with yellowish on the breast, and with black bars. 

 Total length 13 inches, culmcn 0-85, wing 5-55, tail 8-25. 



Hah. Angola. 



This species is only known to me by the description, from which 

 it appears to resemble very closely the young of Cuculus solitariu^. 



8. CACOMANTIS. 



Tyije 

 Oacomantis, 6'. iW/7/. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Vol- 



kenk. Bc-Jtt p. 177 (1842) C. merulinus. 



Polyphasia, Bhjth, J. A. &'. IJeng. xii. p. 244 (1843) . . P 



Gymnopus, Bhjth, Ann. ^- May. Nat. Hist. 184.3, p. 94 C. passerinu^ 

 Ololygon, Cah. S,- Heine, Mns. Hein. iv. p. 20, note 



(1*^62) C. passerinus. 



Eanrje. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, eastward to China and the 

 Philippine Islands, south through the Burmese provinces, the Malay 

 Peninsula, the whole of the Malayan Archipelago to Australia, Xew 

 Caledonia, New Hebrides, and the Fiji Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no bars on the breast. \_Adidts.'] 

 a'. With a shade of rufous on the breast and 

 under tail-coverts. 

 a''. Upper parts paler and gi-eyer. 



a"'. Larger : wing about o-5. Breast ru- 

 fescent, darker than abdomen, whicli 



is generally freckled Jhibelliformis, p. 2G6. 



//". Smaller : wing about 4-5. Breast and 

 under tail-coverts uniform rufous 



buff mcndinm, p. 208. 



b". Upper parts darker. 



c". Upper parts brown ; breast buff. 



a'. Breast paler; under tail-coverts butK variolusus, ^. -272. 



