338 CUCULID.'E. 



Nesoceutoi' clialybeus, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 915 

 (1875) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 106 : Skarpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 xiii. p. 81 (1877) ; Salvad. Ann. Mua. Civ. Gen. xiii. p. 462 (1878) ; 

 id. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 382 (1880). 



Adult male. General plumage violet-shaded blue-black, duller and 

 less violet on the lower back and upper tail-coverts and abdomen ; 

 iris red : bare skin round the eye, bill, and legs black. Total length 

 2j! inches, culmen 1*95, wing 10, tail 11'2.5, tarsus 2"1. 



Hub. Island of Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink, 



8, Centropus bernsteini *. 



Centropiis bernsteini, Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. v. Dierk. iii. p. 251 



(1866), iv. p. 11 (1871) ; S/iarpe, Joarn. Linn. Sue, Zuol. xiii. 



p. 81 (1876). 

 Nesocentor bernsteini, Meyer, Jlitth. Zool. Mus. Drcsd. i. p. 17, note 



(1875). 

 Centropus spilopterus, pt., 8harpe, Journ. Linn. S'oc, Zool. xiii. 



p. 81 (1876). 

 Polophilus bernsteini, Saload. Ann. Mus. Civ. Got. xiii. p. 403 (1878) ; 



d''Alb. ^- Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 40 (1870) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, 



i. p. 388 (1880). 



Adult. Entirely black, with a strong greenish gloss, and glossy 

 black shafts to the feathers of the top of the head, neck, mantle, and 

 chest. Bill and legs black ; iris dirty whitish. Total length 18-5 

 inches, culmen 1'45, wing 7'5, tail 10*7, tarsus 1'75. 



Hah. Now Guinea. 



a. .Vd. ; b. 1mm. sk. New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 



0. Centropus spilopterus. 



Centropus spilopteru?, Gray, P. Z. S. Is5^, p. 184 ; id. Cat. B. New 



Guin. p. 43 (1859; ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 ; Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. 



V. Dierk. iii. p. 338 ( 1866) ; HosenO. Pels, naar Zuidoostereil. 



p. 82 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 214, no. 8078 (1870); Schl. 



Ned. Tijdschr. v. JDierk. iv. p. 11 (1871) ; Sharps, Journ. Linn. 



Soc, Zool. xiii. p. 81 (1878, pt.) ; Rosenh, Malay. Archip. p. 371 



(1878) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiii. p. 463 (1878), xiv. 



p. 045 (1879). 

 Nesocentor spilopterus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Itein. iv. p. 120, note 



(1862). 

 Polophilus spilopterus, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 386 (1880). 



Immature male {Ke Island). Brownish black, with broad glossy 

 black shafts to the feathers of the head, neck, and chest ; on the 

 wings some of the feathers irregularly mottled with buff, indicating 



♦ Le Coucal negre, Levaill Ois. Afr. v. p. 84, pi. 322 (1806). 



Pulopliilus maurus, Stcph. Gen. Zool. is. p. 67 (1815). 



Oeutropus tetbiops, Cue. Seyiic Ah. i. p. 426 (1817). 



Cor^doiiix iiigorrimus, VieiU. Xouv. Vict xxxiv. p. 297 (1819). 

 The figure of Levaillaiit's "Coucal negre" .somewhat resembles Centropus 

 bernsteini. but the account of its habits is fabulous. 



