286 CUCTTLID^. 



B. E(/ypt, p. 163 (1872) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dmnarn-Ld. 

 p. 228 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1874,'p. 103; Reichen. J.f. O. 1875, 

 p. 6; Bocage, On'i. Anr/ola, p. 143 (1877); Beichen. J.f. O. 1877, 

 p. 17 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 407 ; Cab. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 237 ; Fisch. 

 §• Reichmi. t. c. p. 252 ; Oust. Bull. Norn. Arch. Mns. 1879, p. 59 ; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 297, 1880, p. 262; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 594 ; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 245 ; Biihm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 165 ; 

 Schahtc, t. c. p. 346 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 153, 809 

 (1875-84) ; At/res, Ibis, 1884, p. 224 ; Fi.sch. Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 1884, 

 p. 367 ; Aijres, Ibis, 1885, p. 343 ; Biihm, J. f. O. 1885, p. 41 ; 

 Fisch. t. c. p. 124; Buttik. Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 225 (1885); 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 291 ; Buttik. Notes Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 264 

 (1880) ; Si/mo>ids, Ibis, 1887, p. 328 ; Bocatfe, Jon?. Lisb. 1887, 

 p. 2; Reichen. J.f O. 1887, p. 58 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 42. 



Lamprococcyx cupreiis. Cab. &; Heine, Mus. Ilein. iv. p. 11 (1862) ; 

 Onst. Bull. Soc. Phil. (7) i. p. 106 (1877). 



Lamprococcyx chrysochlorns. Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 11 

 (1862) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 92 (1884), vi. 

 p. 213 (1888). 



Lamprococcyx cliiysites, Heine, J.f. O. 1863, p. 350. 



Clialcites cupreiis, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 327. 



Cuculus clarysites, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 218, no. 9040. 



Cuculus chrysochlorns. Gray, t. c. no. 9041. 



Adult male. Above metallic green, shot with a coppery gloss' 

 principally on the mantle ; a white band down the centre of the 

 forehead and front of the crown ; a broad white eyebrow inter- 

 rupted iust over the eye ; wing-coverts mottled with white, mostly 

 towards the centre portion ; quills black glossed with metallic 

 green, with three or four hirge white partial bars on their inner 

 webs, and three distinct white spots on the outer webs of the 

 secondaries, indicated rather as notches on a few of the outer pri- 

 maries ; tail-coverts with broad white ends to their outer webs ; 

 tail of a slightly bluer shade than the back, and with white ends to 

 all of the feathers ; all but the centre pair with white spots, most 

 numerous on the outer ones, where they form partial bars ; ear- 

 coverts, a band under the eye, and a narrow moustachial stripe 

 metallic green ; remainder of the cheeks, throat, and body white, 

 with broad dusky bronze bars on the sides of the breast and the 

 under tail-coverts, occasionally extending on to the centre of the 

 chest ; under surface of the wings brownish black, the coverts 

 mottled and barred with white, the quills broadly banded with 

 white across the inner webs of the feathers : bill black ; iris dark 

 red ; legs brownish black. Total length 7"5 inches, culmcn (i-li, 

 wing 4-6, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Very similar to the male, but more shaded above 

 with coppery bronze than with green ; the white markings on the 

 quills partially shaded with rufous, and many of the tail-feathers 

 barred with that colour ; the throat and front of the chest 

 often shaded with rufous. 



Nestlinr/. Upper half of the head uniform rufous ; remainder of 

 the upper parts rufous, sparingly barred with dusky brown and 

 shaded with metallic green : a few white marks on the wing-coverts ; 



