360 



Liihder, J. f. 0. 187.-i, p. 213; Usshvr, Ibi.% 1874, p. 54 ; Reichen. 

 J.f. 0. 1875, p. 5 ; Shcoye, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 1G5 (1875) ; 

 Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 151 (1877) ; id. Jor». Lish. vi. pp. 202, 

 266 (1878) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 558 ; Hartevt, J. f. 0. 1880, 

 p. 597; Matschie, J.f. 0. 1887, p. 149. 



Adult. Upper half of the head and back of the neck black, 

 strongly glossed with steel-blue ; wings bright chestnut, with dark 

 brown ends to the quills and shaded with that colour, slightly 

 glossed with green on the inner portion ; back dark brown, passing 

 on the npper tail-coverts and tail into glossy greenish black : 

 beneath white, shaded with buff ; wings chestnut below, except 

 that the smaller coverts are buif like the breast : bill and legs 

 black ; iris red. Total length 18 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 7'7, 

 tail 9-7, tarsus 1-9. 



Tovng. Differs from the adult in having the wings barred with 

 black, and the upper tail-coverts and tail partially barred with buff. 

 Length 14"3 inches. From the young of C. senegalensis it may be 

 best distinguished by the darker and bluer colour of the crown, and 

 the darker brown inner portion of the wing. 



Hah. N.E. Africa, and East Africa as far as the Zambesi. W. 

 Africa from the Gold Coast to Benguela. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. (S ad. sk. 



(/. c? ad. sk. 

 e. (S ad. sk. 



/. Juv. sk. 



g. Ad. ; h. 



Imm. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 

 I. iS ad. ; m, n. 



$ ad. sk. 

 o. Ad. sk. 

 p. cj ad. sk. 

 q, r. Ad. sk. 



s-v. Ad. sk. 

 %o. Ad. sk. 

 X. Sternum. 



Abyssinia. 

 Abyssinia. 

 Agula, Abyssinia, May 10. 



Goongoona, Abyssinia, Mav 8 



{W.Jesse). 

 Gedem, Shoa, Dec. {Sir W. 



Harris). 

 White Nile. 

 Fantee {H. T. Ussher). 



Accra {Haynes). 

 Gold Coa.st (Aubitm). 

 Shonga, R. Niger, Nov., Dec. 



( fV. A. F.). 

 Ogowe R., Gaboon. 

 Caconda, Benguela (Atichieia). 

 Lake Ngami (C/tapma7i). 



Zambesi (Dr. Bradshaw). 



Mozambique. 



Abvssinia. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Dr. Riippell [C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



India Museum. 



Sir S. Baker [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharps Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 



M. Bouvier [P.], 



Sharpe Coll. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



26. Centropus senegalensis. 



Le Coucou du S^n^gal, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 120, pi. 8. fig. 1 (1760). 



Cuculus senegalensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 169 (1766). 



Egyptian Ouckow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 420 (1782). 



Cuculus ajgyptius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 420 (1788). 



Le Coucal houhou, m.^le, Levaill. Ois. rVAfr. v. p. 72, pi. 219 (1806). 



