280 CUCULID^. 



Adult. Ashy brown with an olive shade, slightly darker and 

 greyer on the crown, back of neck, nape, and decidedly paler and 

 more ashy on the lower back and upper tail-coverts ; quills dark 

 brown, with narrow pale edges ; outermost upper tail-coverts with 

 broad white marginal ends, and some faint bars mostly on their 

 outer webs ; all the tail-feathers with broad whitish ends, and five 

 other distinct white bars on the inner webs of the outer pair, while 

 similar bars are partially traceable on the penultimate ones ; on the 

 sides of the head a broad white eyebrow, and a black baud through 

 the eye comprising the car-coverts ; under surface of body rufous- 

 buff, fading into white on the abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, the flanks with almost obsolete dusky bars ; under tail- 

 coverts with three or four dusky brown bars ; under wing-coverts 

 and a broad basal margin to the inner webs of the quills rufous- 

 buff : bill blackish ; irides greyish black ; tarsus in front and toes 

 above greenish grey, back of the tarsus and soles of the feet pinker. 

 Total length 7*6 inches, culmen 0"65, wing 4*7, tail 3*8, tarsus 0'7. 



Hah, The same as that of the genus. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Cape York. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould CoU. 



d. Ad. sk. S. Australia (G. F. Amjas). Gould Coll. 



10. CHRYSOCOCCYX. 



lype. 



Chrysococcyx, Boie, Isis, 18:i7, p. 077 C. cupreus. 



Chalcites, Less. Traite Orii. p. lo2 (18:^1) C. cupreus. 



Lampromorpha, Vir/. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 0:i C. cupreus. 



Lamprococcyx, Cafj. Him. Hein. iv. p. 11 (18(ii') C. cupreus. 



Ramje. Confined to Tropical and South Africa. 



Kei/ to the hipecics. 



a. With yellow ou the under surface. 



a'. Breast yellow ; entire throat brill iaut 



emerald-green like the upper parts smaratjdineus, p. 280. 



h' . Yellow colour coufined to the throat, which 



ends in a broad green pectoral collar .... Jluoujiduris, p. 282. 



h. With no portion of the plumage yellow ; 



throat white or nearly so. 



£•'. Tail with three outer pairs of feathers 



almost entirely white ; the green of the 



neck extending as a patch on the sides of 



the crop klami, p. 283. 



d'. Tail with less white ; sides of crop uniform 



with the breast cupreus, p. 285. 



1. Chrysococcyx smaragdineus. 



Cuculus cupreus (nee Bodd.), S/taw, Mus. Lever, p. 167 (1792) ; Vieill. 



Gal. Ois. i. p. 33, pi. 42 (1825); Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 42 



(1858). 

 Chalcites cupreus, Riipp. Neue Wirb., Voy. p. 62 (1835). 



