0. c? imm. sk. 

 P-q- 2 ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



r, .9. Ad. et J 

 juv. .sk. 



8. OAOOMANTIS. 



Waigiou (^. 7?. Wallace). 

 Ternate (^. 7i!. Wallace). 



273 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Ilalmalicra {A. It. Wallace). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Cacomantis insperatus. 



Cuculus insperatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 19; id. B Austr iv 

 pi. 87 (1840); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 46:J (1847): Rchh. Von. 

 Neuholl. p. 114 (1849). r \ , ., 



Cacomantis insperatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 104 (1850) ; Cah. S( Heine, 

 Mu^ Hew. IV. p. 24, note (18G2) ; Gould, Handh. B. Austr. i. 



fo^f^ 1\^^^^' '^•^'''- ^•^■'^- 1877, p. 106; Finsch, P. Z. S. 



18/9, p. 12 ; Layard, Ihis, 1880, p. 300. 

 Cuculus assimili.s, G. Jl Graij, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 184, 195 ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1801, p. 437 ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 217, no. 9026. 

 Cuculus (Cacomantis) tymbonomus (nee Millie, Gray, P Z S 1860 



p. 359. ■ ' 



Cuculus (Cacomantis) sepulcralis, Grai/, t. c. p. 3.59. 

 Cacomantis iufaustus, Cab. S; Heine,' Mus. 7f«w. iv. p. 23 (1862) • 



Wald. Trails. Z. S. viii. p. 54 (1872). 

 Cacomantis assjmilis. Gray, P. Z S. 1861, p. 437; Cab. .f Heine, 



¥jni\-^^''"'- '''• P- ^" (1*^62); Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 1.59 (pt 



186o)j Wald. Trans. Z 8. viii. p. 54 (1872) ; Sharpe,Journ. Linn. 



i,oc,Zool. xiii. p. 492 (1877) ; Salvad. Ann. Miis. Civ. Gen. xiii. 



p. 4.j8 (1878), xiv. p. 642 (1879) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 321 ; Sharpe 



Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 428 (1882) ; Pleske, Bull. Acad 



1,'tersl,. XXIX. p. 524 (1884); Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 337 (1889) 

 ( uculus infaustus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 217, no. 9023 (1870) 

 Cacomantis sp. inc., Sclaf. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 447. 

 Cacomantis tymbonomus {nee Mull.), Grant, P. Z. S. 1888 p. 191. 



Adnit male. Similar to C. meruUnii.^, but with the upper parts 

 darker and browner ; the p^rey of the throat extending on to the 

 breast, which is only partially washed with pale chestnut ; under 

 tail-coverts pale chestnut or cinnamon. Total length S 'inches 

 culmen 0-7.5, wing 4-4, tail 4-2, tarsus 0-6.5. ' 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. 



Hab. New Guinea to JSTow Britain and the Solomon Islands ; the 

 Aru group and Moluccas. 



a. Imm. sk. 

 b,c. Ad. sk. 

 d, e,f. Ad. sk 

 (I. Ad. sk. 

 /(, i. 2 ad. sk. 

 />-. c? ad. sk. 



/, »n, «. Ad. ; 

 $ juv. sk. 

 ;'. c? ad. .sk. 



y. $ imm. sk. 



S.E. New Guinea (Hunsfein). 

 Fly River, New Guinea. 

 Port ^lorcsbv. 

 Astrolabe Mts. {A. Goldir). 

 New llritain, Feb. (G. Broini). 

 Wanche Bay, June (G. E. 



liichards). 

 Duke of York Island, Dec, 



jNIarcb, Oct. 

 Duke of York Island, .lulv 21 



(G.E.Richards). 

 (Juadalcanar, Solomon Is., 



April 18. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Seebohm CoU. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Forbes foil. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Seebohm Col!. 



Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



CM. Woodford, Esq. 



rc.\ 



