S. CACOMANIIS. 277 



of the throat, body, and under tail- coverts with broad ..ale bars 

 more or less washed with rufous, especially on the front of the 

 chest ; the outer tail-feather with about six distinct partial white 

 bars on the inner web and a white end, this white end being also 

 indicated on several of the other feathers ; pale portion of the under 

 wmg-eoverts Avashed with rufous. 



The sexes are similar in plumage, and probably in a fully adult 

 s].ecimen there would be no pale bar on any feather 



Hah. Piji Islands. 



«. c? ad ; b. 2 Fiji Islands, A],ril 8, 1877 Tweeddale Coll. 



J"\- sJ^- (Dr. li. Smith). 



'■• 2 «c^- sk. ( )valau, Fiji Islands, April SeeboLm Coll 



, „ . , 22, 1874 {E. L. Lmianl). 



'^- ^ •'"'■■ ■■''• Taviiuii, April 24, 1875 Tweeddale (Joll. 



(E. L. Layard). 



'''•L,f; U ^'' '• ^ ™'"'^' ;^P"'' ^% ^^- L. Tweeddale Coll. 



k. d imni. sk. l^ewa, Jan. 187o (E. L. Tweeddale Coll. 



Layavd^. 



10. Cacomantis passerinus. 



Cuculus passerinus, VaU, 8kriv. af ^^atuur. liehh.\s. p, .-,7 (1707) • 



Suruiculus tiavus, pt., male, Less. TraiU, p. 152 (1831) 



Cuculus flavus, Jerd. Madr. Juiirn. xi. p '>20 



Cuculus niger (^nec Linn.), Bhjth, J. A. S. Bemj. 1842, pp. 798, 908, 

 184.J, p. _'40; Crmj, Gen. B. n. p. 463 (1847) ; id. Cat.Mamm etc 

 Neprd pres. Hodqs. -p. 120 (164(3). ^ ^' ^amm. etc. 



Cuculus tenuirostris Gray,!!!. Lnd. Z. ii. pi. 34. %. 1 (1834) ; Striekl. 





p. 85 (1844). 



Cuculus uio-er, var. pvronimatus, Hodr/s-. f. e p 85 

 Cacomantis tenuirostris, B/,. Consp. Vol. Zi/f/od. p. 7 (1854) 

 lolyphasia tenuirostris, Ilorsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Miis. E.L Co ii 



p. t.08 (]8o6) ; Jerd. Ll>is, 1872, p. 15. 

 Polypha^sia niger, Jerd. B. Lnd. i. p. 333 (18G-^) 

 Cacomantis passerinus. Cab. ^- Aeine, Mus. Hein. iy. p. 18 (1862)- 



Bal, Str F yn. p. 207 (1878) ; Cripps, t. c. p. 2G5; kume; rTci 



\. p. -2, (1^81); Davidson, t.c. p. 360. 

 1 -jvphasia passerina, Jerd. Ilm, 1872. pi. 1 ; Holdsworth, 1\ Z. S 

 l^- 2, ].. 431 ; Lei/f/e, Ibis, 1875, p. 284. 



/^fV''Ti'?"<' ^^'.Z'' ^^'-'f-' ^f J^'fm I»'J.B. p. 136 (1873); 

 5;^ • * !■• ^•^18y4, p. .3 94 ; Butkr, op. cit. 1875, p. ^461 ; Ball, op. 

 cit. 18/6, p. 23., ; Fau-bank. t. c. p. 255, 1877, p. 413. 



- W»*// »m/.. General plumage grey, darker on the upper surface 

 with an ohve gloss on the uuintle and wings : a white patch on the 



