402 crcuLiD^. 



culmen : iris crimson ; legs black. Total length 12'8 inches, 

 culmen I'l, wing 4-5, tail 7*6, tarsus l-l. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegal to the Gold Coast. 



a-d. Ad. sk. W. coast of Africa. Purchased. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Sierra Leone. Colonel Sabine [P.]. 



q, h. Ad. sk. Ashantee. Gould Coll. 



'i, k. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. Shelley Coll. 



l-t. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher ^ F. Sharpe Coll. 



Ad. sk. Capo Coast Castle. Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Ceuthmochares seneus. 



Coucou gris bronze, Levaill. Ois. Afr. v. p. 60, pi. 215 ; Sundev. 



Krit. Framst. om Levaill. p. 48 (1857). 

 Cuculus aereus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 229 (1817) ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 13.33 (182.3). 

 Cuculus aeratus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 210 (1826). 

 Zauclostomus fiavirostris {nee Sivains.), Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 52 ; 



Shaiye, Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 (1871, pt.). 

 Zanclostomus aereus, Hartl. J.f. 0. 1854, p. 201 ; id. Om. W.-Afr. 



p. 275 (1857) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 142 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 206, no. 8874 (1870) ; Beicheti. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 2, 1877, 



p. 15. 

 Zanclostomus teneus, Hartl. ^ Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1800, p. 112 ; 



Sharjje ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 312 (1876) ; Bocage, 



Om. Angola, p. 147 (1877). 

 Ceuthmochares aereus. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 60 (1862) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 007, 610, fig. 15 (pt.). 

 Ceuthmochares intermedius, Sharpe, Linn. Soc. Journ. xvii. p. 432 



(1884). 



Adult. Decidedly paler than the last s])ecies ; back and wings 

 greyer, with a greenish-blue gloss ; the tail, which is violet on 

 the lateral feathers, passes into brilliant bluish green on the centre 

 ones : beneath pale ashy grey, fading into white towards the chin 

 and into dusky grey on the tlanks, thighs, and abdomen ; under 

 tail-coverts bright glossy green : the black patch at the base of 

 the culmen is rather smaller and more irregularly shaped than in 

 C. fiavirostris: iris crimson ; legs black. Total length 12-2 inches, 

 culmen 1*15, wing 4-5, tail 7'1, tarsus 1-1. 



Levaillant describes Le Coacou [/ris bronze from Malimbe as 

 having the tail glossed with green and blue above and being bluer 

 beneath, and mentions the green gloss about the under tail-coverts, 

 thus pointing out the most prominent characters by which this 

 species is distinguished from its allies. 



Hah. Angola to the Cameroons, and through the Congo Basin to 

 the Niam-Niam Country. 



a. Ad. sk. Semmio, Niam-Niam Country, F.Eohndorff[0.]. (Type 



Feb. of C. intermedius.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains, Jan. Sharpe Coll. 



(^Crossley), 



