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4. Eudynamis cyanocephala. 



Blue-headed Cuckow, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 137, 



Cuculus cyanocephalus, Lath. Lml. Orn. li. Suppl. p. 30 (1801) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 110 (1815) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1336 



(1823). 

 Flinder's Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iii. p. 308 (1822). 

 Cuculus flindersii, "Lath. MS.,'' Vig. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 



p. 305 (1826). 

 Eudynamis orientalis (nee L.), Vig. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 



p. 304 (1826) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 20, note n 



(1864)._ 

 Eudynamis flindersii, Vig. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soe. xv. p. 305 



(1826) ; Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 91 (1818) ; Beichb. Viig. Neuholl, 



ii. p. 210(1849); McGill. Voy. ' Battlesnake; ii. p. 357(1852); 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 195 ; id. Cat. B. New Guin. p. 44 (1859) ; 



Cab. 4- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 53 (18G2) ; Roseyib. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Nederl. Lid. xxv. p. 229 (1863) ; id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 117 ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 632 (1865) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 601. 

 Eudynamis australis. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 344 (1838) ; Strickl. 



J. A. S. Bang. 1844, p. 390, note ; Peak, U.S. Expl. E.vped. 1848, 



p. 139. 

 Cuculus orientalis, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 16 (1864). 

 Eudynamis cyanocephala, Wald. Ibis, 1869, p. 341 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 221, no. 9071 (1870) ; Wald. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 162 (1875); 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiii. pp. 310, 491 (1877); Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiii. p. 461 (1878) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. Wales, iii. p. 257 (1878) ; UAlb. ^- Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 44 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, p. 365 (1830) ; 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii. p. 21 (1882) ; Finsch, 



Vog. d. S'ddsee, p. 16 (18S4) ; Meyer, Sitz. Geselhch. Isis, 1884, 



Abh. i. p. 17 ; id. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 275 (18S4) ; North, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii. p. 554 ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 191 ; Ramsay, Tab. List, p. 15 (1883) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papu- 

 asia, p. 51 (1889). 

 Eudynamis picatus {Mdll.), Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 106, 1878, 



p 67i : linsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 12 ; Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 300. 



Adult male. Black, with a bright greenish-blue gloss. Total 

 length 16 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 8-1, tail 8'4, tarsus 1"3. 



Adult female. Upper half of the head and back of the neck glossy 

 greenish black ; remainder of the upper parts dark brown, with an 

 olive gloss ; back and wing-coverts thickly spotted with white : 

 quills, rump, and tail-feathers with numerous white bars; chin and 

 upper half of the throat black, irregularly mottled with white spots ; 

 a broad white loral band ; remainder of the underparts white, par- 

 tially washed with rufous-buff, and with narrow, somewhat irregular, 

 black bars ; uuder wing-coverts like the breast ; under surface of 

 the quills dusky browu, partially barred with white. 



Immature (type of Eudijaamis jiindersii, Vig. & Horsf.), General 

 plumage buff ; a large blue-black patch on the back of the head and 

 nape ; a band of the same colour extending from the back of the eye 

 down the sides of the uock, widening out at the base ; back and wing- 

 coverts very irregularly mottled with dark brown, and a few greenish- 



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