34. couA, 405 



Le])iclo;ji'aninius ciiniingi, Bp. Connp. Vol. Zyyod. p. 5 ('18-'34) ; Cab. ^• 

 Heine, Mus. Ilein. iv. p. 70 (18G2) ; Shmye, P. Z. 8. 1«7.3, p. 602, 

 fig-. 6 head ; Wald. Tram. Z. S. ix. p. 163 (1875) ; Gould, B. Asia, 

 mi. pi. 46 (1876) ; nveedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 691. 



Cuculus decorus, " Gravenhorst," Bp. C'onsp. Vol. Zygod. p. 5 (1854). 



Adult (typo of species). Upper half and sides of the head grey, 

 passing into white on the sides of the forehead and throat ; all the 

 feathers of the forehead and a broad central band through the 

 crown to the nape ornamented with glossy black horny appendages, 

 and having the subterminal portion of each feather white ; a broad 

 band of similarly horny-tipped feathers extending down the centre 

 of the throat ; back of the neck deep chestnut ; remainder of the 

 upper parts deep glossy green, inclining to purplish blue on the 

 quills and tail ; the feathers of the latter with white ends ; at the 

 base of the neck a broad golden-rufous semicircle bordering the 

 white throat and blending into the deep chestnut of the sides of the 

 neck and chest ; abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts brownish 

 black, washed with a dark-green gloss on the outside of the thigh- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts deep chestnut like the breast : quills 

 uniform glossy black ; eyelashes strong and black : " orbital patch 

 and iris red ; bill horn-yellow ; legs grey " {A. H. Everett). Total 

 length 17 inches, culmeu I'o, wing 0"1, tail 9, tarsus 1-6. 



NestVuuj. Upper half and sides of the head, wings, and body both 

 above and below dark reddish brown : the quills and base of the 

 tail glossy greenish black, with which colour other portions of the 

 wings are mottled ; a broad white end to the tail ; neck all round 

 rufous, passing into rufous-grey on the chin. 



llab. Luzon. 



a, b. Ad. ; c. Pull. Philippines. Purchased. 



sk. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Manila (Maitland Heriot). Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Luzon, Jan. 14, Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



(J. $ ad. sk. Batan, Luzon, April {A. B. Tweeddale CoU. 



Meyer), 



h, i, h. d ad. sk. Monte Alban, Feb., March Tweeddale Coll. 

 {A. Everett). 



34. COUA. ^p^ 



Coua, Cuv. Eigne An. i. p. 425 (1817) C. crerulea. 



Serisomus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 32:5 (1837) C. cristata. 



Glaucococcy.x, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 71 (1862) C. ca?rulea. 



Cochlothraustcs, Cab. ^- Heine, ^. c. p. 74 C. delulandii. 



Range. Confined to the island of Madagascar. 



Koj to the S^yecies, 



a. With no white ends to any of the tail-feathers. 

 a'. Throat and breast uniform. 



a". Kuthv plumage blue cefrulea, p. 406. 



