CACOMANTTS. 2(19 



; Tiveedd. 

 Mus. Civ. 



p. 7 ;• id. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. Zool. p. 320 (1877) ; Tiveedd. 

 P.Z. S. 1877, p. G91, 1878, pp. 613, 709; tSalwtd. Ann. i 



Works, p. 656 (1881); Biiftik. Notes Leyden Mus. ix. p. 28 

 (1886) : Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1887, p. 532 ; Sharpe, Ibis. 



1888, p. 198, 1890, p. 10; Whitehead, t. c. p. 46 ; Everett, P. Z. S. 



1889, p. 225. 



Polypliasia tenuirostris (nee S. Milll.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 335 (pt.) 



(1862). 

 Cacomantis dysonomus, Heine, J.f. O. 1863, p. 352. 

 Oacomantis querulus, pt., Heine, J.f. O. 1863, p. 352. 

 Polypliasia rutlveDtris, Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 15. 

 Cacomantis passoriniis {nee Vahl), Blyth Sf Walden, B. Burmah, 



p. 80 (1875). 

 Ololygoii tenuirostris, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 80 (1875). 

 Cacomantis nitiveutris, Annstrom/, Str. F. iv. p. 312 (1876) ; 



Wardlaio Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 4:58 ; Anders. Zool. Exptd. 



Yunnan, p. 587 (1878). 

 Cacomantis teuuirostris {nee Bp.), David &• Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 62 



(1877). 

 Cuculiis threnodes. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 217, no. 9017. 



Adult male. Upper half of the head and back of the neck leaden 

 grey, passing gradually into brown, ^yith an olive gloss on the back 

 and wings ; feathers of the pinion-joint white, forming a patch ; 

 upper tail-coverts grey like the crown ; tail slaty black with white 

 ends, the outer webs of the feathers notched with white, the inner 

 webs regularly barred with white, most strongly so on the outer 

 feathers ; sides of the head, chin, throat, and front of chest uniform 

 grey, slightly paler than the crown ; remainder of the body and 

 under tail-coverts and the under wing-covcrts uniform rufous-buff ; 

 under surface of the quills dusky brown, witb a diagonal bar of 

 white formed by the white on the inner webs near the base of the 

 quills : " bill black, base of lower mandible reddish ; iris light 

 red; feet and legs waxy naples yellow, nails black" {A. Everett). 

 Total length 8-2 inches, culmeu 0-65, wing 4-3, tail 4-3, tarsus 0-65. 



Immature. Above rufous, nearly equally barred throughout with 

 olive shaded black ; primaries alone more uniform brown ; under- 

 parts buff, narrowly barred throughout Avith dusky black ; under 

 wing-coverts like the chest : pale portion of the quills more rufous 

 than in the adult and indicating partial bars : " bill dusky black, 

 yellowish at the gape and base of lower mandible ; iris yellowish 

 white, legs and feet diugy greyish yellow " (A. 0. Hume). Total 

 length 9-1 inches, culmen U'7, wing 4-3, tail 5, tarsus 0-7. 



This species appears to embrace three races, all of which 

 have received a name, viz. Guculus merulinus, Scop., a pale bird 

 with the grey of the head and throat sharply defined and with clear 

 regular white bars across the inner webs of the tail-feathers. 

 Cacomantis threnodes, Cab., a rather darker bird with a deeper 

 rufous-buff colour on the breast. Cuculussejjulcralis, S. Miill., with 

 the upper parts nearly uniform, the notches on the outer webs 



