294 cucuLiD^. 



addition three white spots on the inner webs, with their outer webs 

 irregularly notched with white ; underparts white, regularly banded 

 with coppery bronze, shaded with green ; under wing-coverts like 

 the breast, "only with narrower bars : " bill and iris black ; legs 

 dusky grey " (A. Goldie). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 

 3-5, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Differs only from the male in having the forehead 

 and front half of the crown bright chestnut. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts., New Guinea. A. Goldie [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Sogers Distr., S.E. New H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



Guinea. [G-]- 



4. Chalcococcyx basalis. 



Cuculus basalis, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 (1821); Vig. 



Mem. Raffl. p. 672 (1830); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. p. 218, no. 9038 (1870). 

 Chrysococcyx chalcites {nee III.), Blyth, J. A. S. Bemj. xi. p. 919 



(1842). 

 Chrysococcvx lucidus (wee Gm!), Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 86, pt. 



fig. 2 et juv. (1848). 

 Chrysococcyx basalis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 73 (1849) ; 



Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. ii. p. 107 (1856-58). 

 Chalcites basalis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 7 (1854) ; Hume, Sir. 



F. ill. p. 319 (1875) ; Ramsay, Pi: Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2) ii. 



p. 170 (1887). 

 Lamprococcyx basaUs, Ca6. ^- Heine, Mm. Hein. iv. p. 12 (1862) ; 



Salrad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiii. p. 459 (1878) ; id. Orn. Papu- 



asia, i. p. 349 (1880), App. p. 49 (1889). 

 Cuculus lucidus, Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 33 (pt., 1864). 

 ? Cucidus ueglectus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, C'ucidi, p. .35 (1864) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 219, no. 9045 (1870). 



Adult male. Upper parts brown, strongly glossed with metallic 

 green on the mantle, wings, and tail ; feathers of the wings with 

 narrow pale brown or white edges ; tail with the two centre 

 feathers brown strongly washed with metallic green, all the 

 remainder of the feathers having a white terminal spot on their 

 inner webs and a subterminal dark bar ; outer feather blackish, 

 with six broad white bars across the inner web, and a similar 

 number of notches on the outer web ; the next three pairs having 

 their basal three quarters uniform rufous, with the remainder dusky 

 greenish brown above and ashy beneath, with two spots of white 

 very distinct on the inner webs ; sides of the head with a broad white 

 eyebrow ; ear-coverts brown ; remainder of the plumage white, 

 shaded and mottled with pale brown on the sides and base of the 

 throat ; breast barred on the sides with brown ; under tail-coverts 

 with a few large brown shaft-spots ; under wing-coverts white, 

 barred with brown like the sides of the body ; under surface of the 

 quUls brown, with a patch of white near the shaft of the Urst 

 primary, and a large marginal one on the inner webs of the 



