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black feathers on the wing-coverts and centre of the back ; quills and tail 

 strongly barred -with dark brown ; under surface -with partial narrow 

 brownish-black bars almost confined to the lower throat, chest, and 

 flank ; some patches of black feathers on the sides of the throat, and 

 some of the feathers of the lower throat and chest washed in patches 

 with cliestnut-buff ; under wing-coverts uniform rufous-buff; quills 

 brown, barred with very pale buff. Total length 16 inches, culmen 

 0-95, wing 8-2, tail S-7, tarsus 1-2. 



Hah. Australia and New Guinea, to Goram and Timor, 



5. Eudynamis rufi venter. 



Coucou tachete des Indes Orientales, Daub. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 771 



(1783). 

 Cuculus rutiventer, Less. Vou. Coq., Zool. i. p. 623 (1828); id. TraiU, 



p. 150(1831). ^ )! \ '^ 



Eudvnanus rufi venter, Less. Compl. Buff., Ois. p. 625 (1838); Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 404 (1847) ; Wald. Ibis, 1809, p. 344; Gra\i, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 221, no. 0074; Wald. Tram. Z. S. ix. p. 102 (1875); 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cir. G(>«. xiii. p. 401 (1878); id. Atfi li.Accad. 



