18. CKNTROPrS. 



331 



sides, always most distinct on the tliiglis and under tail-coverts; 

 these bars vary in intensity with oge, being darkest in the youngest 

 birds and occasionally black on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 tail beneath paler than above, and with alternate broad white and 

 black notches on the inner webs of the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 greyish white, sometimes with partial grey bars; under surface 

 of the quills pearl-grey, with broad brownish-bhack ends to the 

 feathers : " orbits and lores scarlet ; bill light yellowish horn- 

 colour ; feet olive-brown "' {Gould). Total length 25 inches, culmen 

 4, wing 14, tail 11, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. 



Hah. Australia, Xew Guinea, Duke of York Island and New 

 Britain, Ke Islands, Ceram, Bouru, Obi, Batchian, Ternate, Celebes, 

 and Florcs. 



rt. Ad. St. Australia. A. Cuuninohani,Esq. 



[P.]. ^ 

 h. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Forbes Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. Hume Coll. 



/, (J. Ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Port Denisou, Queensland. Seebohm CoU. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Cape York {J. T. C'ocherdl). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. ^'.W. Australia. J. II. Elsey,Es(i.[P.]. 



m. Juv. St. Xew Britain. Purchased. 



n. Ad. sk. Duke of York Island. Kev. G. Brown [C.]. 



0, ;j. Ad. sk. Port Alovesbv. Seebohm Cull. 



q. Ad sk. Ceram {A. li. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



r. Ad sk. N. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



»•, t. Ad. sk. Batchiau. Wallace Coll. 



It. Ad.sk. QA^ihes, {Von llosenherg) . Salvin-Godman Coll. 



v, w. (S 2 ad. sk. Menado, N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



.V. 2 ad. sk-. -Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



y. d ad. sk. Makassar {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



Subfiimily II. CENTROPODIN/K. 



ly. CENTROPUS. 



Type. 



Centropus, ///. rrodr. p. l'0-5 (1811) 0. senegalensis. 



Polophilus, Leach, Zool. Miscell. i. p. llo, pis. 46, 51, 



b-1, 50 (LS14) C. phasianus. 



Corydouyx, J leill. Analyse, p. 28 (ISIG) C. toulou. 



Ceutrococcyx, Cab. S,- Heine, JIus. Hein. iv. p. 100 



(It^^'^) C. viridis. 



Pyrvhocentor, Cab. ^. c. p. 117 C. celebeusis. 



Neaoceutor, Cab. t. c. p. 118 C. milo. 



liawje. The whole of Tropical Africa, ranging into the Nile 

 Delta ; Madagascar ; Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, ranging eastwards 

 into China, and south through the entire Malayan archipelago to 

 the Papuan Islands and Australia. 



