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quarters of tlie outer webs ; the reinainiag three pairs of outer tail- 

 feathers while, with a broad subtcrminal bar of blackish bronze ; 

 quills (lark browu, glossed with fiery copper, most strongly so on 

 the outer webs ; the inner webs of the (juills buff for about three 

 (juarters of their length, this colour forming partial bars or notches 

 in tlie brown of the quills ; chin and throat bright yellow, with the 

 sides and a few feathers on tlie middle of the crop golden green ; 

 remainder of the under surface of the; ))ody, the thighs, and the 

 under tail-coverts brownish buff, each feather with some four or five 

 wavy narrow bars of bronze ; under wing-coverts buff, similarly 

 marked ; bill yellow, shaded with horn-colour towards the base ; 

 legs apparently dark olive, with the soles of the feet yellow. Total 

 length (J inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-8, tail 2-8, tarsus (J"6. 



Hah. W. Africa, Elmiua on the Gold Coast. 



The typical specimen is in the Stuttgart Museum. 



3. Chrysococcyx klaasi. 



Lb Coucuu de Klaus, Levnill. Ois. d\Afr. v. p. o-'j, pi. iVl (1806) ; 



Siiiidcv. Krit. oin LeL-aill. p. 47 (IfjoB). 

 Cucuhis klaasi, Stejih. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 128 (1815) : Vieill. Euc. 



Jleth. p. 1383 (1823) ; Sckl. Mils. Paijs-Bas, Cuculi, p. .-50 (1804) : 



Gmy, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 218, no. 9039 (1870) ; Hhavpt, P. Z. 8. 1873, 



p. 592 ; Shelley, Ibix, 1875, p. 83 ; Sharpe S)- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, i. p. 52 (1870) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 155 



(1876-84) ; id. Jotan. Linn. Soe., Zool. xvii. p. 433 (1884). 

 Chalcites klasii, Leits. Traite Orn. p. 153 (1831) ; Swains. B. JV. 



Afr. ii. p. 189, pi. 21 (1837). 

 Chrysococcyx clasii, Riipp. Sy.sf. Uehers. p. 96 (1845). 

 Chrysococcyx klasii, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. p. 73 (1849). 

 Chrysococcyx klaasi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 105 (1850) ; J. Sf E. Terr. 



Rev. et May. Zool. 1855, p. 270 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 205 ; 



Fin-^ch, J. f. 0. 1867, p. 248 ; Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 327 



(1807) ; Finsch .V Hartl. Viiy. Ost-Afr. p. 520 (1870) ; Blanf. 



Geol. i^- Zool. Abyss, ji. 31 1 (l.s70) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 58 ; 



Giiniey in A7ider8s. B. Hamara-Ld. p. 229 (1872) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 



1875, p. 5 ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 144 (1877) ; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 131 ; Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 237 ; Oicst. Bull. Nota: Arch. 



yfus. 1879, p. 59; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mm. x. p. 96 (1888); 



Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 168. 

 ChrASococcyx klasi, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. 



p." 705 (1856-58). 

 Chrysococcvx claa.si, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 190 (1857) ; Gurnet/, 



Ibis, 1859, p. 247 ; Ileuyl.J.f. O. 1804,*i). 265 ; Ileuyl. Orn. N.6.- 



Afr. pj). 778, clxi (l87'l) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 53 ; Fischer ■^• 



Reichen. J. /'. O. 1879, p. 342; Fischer, Ze.itschr. r/es. Orn. 1884, 



p. 367 ; id.' J.f. O. 18s,5, p. 342. 

 Laiiiprococcvx klaasi, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 12 (1862) ; 



Heine, J.f. O. 1863, p. 3-50 ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 106 



(1877); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 33 (1888). 

 I.i!>.niprococcy.>: resplendeus, Heine, J.f. O. l8tv>, p. 350. 

 C'hakitesJilaasii, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 250 (1867). 

 Chrysococcyx resplendeus, lU-ichen. J.f. O, 1877, p. 17. 



