314 CTJCULID^. 



1. Urodynamis taitiensis. 



Le Coucou bi'un yarie de noii", Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. \\. p. 376 



(1779). 

 Society Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 514 (1782). 

 Cuculus taitiensis, S'parnn. Mus. Carls, ii. pi. .32 (1787) ; J'ieill. Enc. 



Meth. p. 1329 (1823) ; Sundev. Krit. Framst. p. 8 (1858) ; Wuld. 



Ibis, 18(59, p. 346. 

 Cuculus tahitias, Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 412 ; Wahl. Ibis, 18G9, p. 336. 

 Cuculus taitensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 209 (1790) ; Stejjh. Gen. 



Zool. ix. p. 92 (1815) ; Less. Traitc Orn. p. 151 (1831) ; EUmann, 



Zoologist, 1861, p. 7467 ; SchJ. Mns. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 21 (1864). 

 Cuculus perlatus, Vieill. N. Diet. viii. p. 232 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. 



iii. p. 1334 (1823) ; Pwher. Ecv. et Mag. Zool. 1852, p. 562, note. 

 Eudvnaniys taitiensis, Gray, App. Dieffenb. New Zealand, ii. p. 193 



(1843) ; id. Gen. B. ii. p. 464 (1846) ; Cass. U. S. Erpl. E.rp. 



p. 248, Atlas, pi. 22. fig. 2 (1858) ; Gray, Ibi.^, 1862, p. 231. 

 Cuculus fasciatus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 160 (1844) ; id. Icon. Zool. 



Eudvnaniis cuneicauda, Peale, U. S. Expl. E.vp. p. 139, pi. 38. fig. 2 



(1848) ; Sarfl. Wiegm. Arch. Naturg. xviii. p. 107 (1852). 

 Eudvnamis taitensis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 101 (1850); id. Consp. 



Vol. Zygod. p. 6 (1854) ; Bull. B. N. Zeal. p. 73, pi. 8 (1873) ; id. 



2nd ed." i. p. 127 (1888) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 491 ; THstr. Ibis, 



1882, p. 14.3. 

 Eudynamis tahitiensis, Cass. U. S. Erpl. E.vp., Atlas, pi. 22. fig. 2 



(1858) ; Potts, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. iii. p. 90 (1873). 

 Eudynamys taliitius. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 35 (1859). 

 Eudynamis taitiensis. Cab. Sf- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 56, note 



(1862) ; Layard, Ibis, 1876, pp. 144, 391 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, 



p. 773 ; id. 'ibis, 1880, p. 433. 

 Eudpiamys taitiensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 221, no. 9077 (1870) ; 



liamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. finales, iv. p. 70 (1879). 

 Eudynamis tahitensis. Potts, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. iii. p. 90 (1870) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 300. 

 Eudynamis taliitius, Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 275. 

 Urodynamis taitiensis, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 370(1880) : Agq. i. 



App. p. 61 (1889) ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 191. 



Adult male. Above dark brown, striped on the head and neck, 

 and barred on the back, wings, and tail with rufous ; most of the 

 wing-coverts, a few of the greater scapulars, and the tail-feathers 

 with white ends ; tail evenly and regularly barred with numerous 

 alternate bands of dark brown and rufous ; eyebrow white, lores and 

 car-coverts dark brown streaked with rufous ; underparts white, 

 with dark brown shaft-stripes, mostly on the sides of the throat 

 and body ; thigh-coverts and under tail-coverts with broad angadar 

 somewhat concentric bars ; under wing-coverts butfy white ; quills 

 brown barred with whitish : a small patch of bare skin round 

 the eye dull green ; bill brown, paler and greyer along the edges 

 and yellower on the lower mandible ; iris reddish brown ; legs 

 greenish yeUow, claws dark brown. Total length 17'8 inches, 

 culmen 1-15, wing 7*8, tail 9-7, tarsus 1-4.5. 



Adtdt female. k?imilar to the male in plumage. 



