370 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus CUCULUS Linnaeus, 1758. 



Secondaries about half tlie lengtli of primaries ; wing long and flat ; 

 tail shorter than wing; in adults the upper parts are nearly uniform brown 

 or gray, chin and throat gray; abdomen white barred with black. 



Species. 



a'. Tail with a suhterniinal black band; crown and throat grayisli contrasting,' 



with mantle and back _... micropterus (p. 370) 



a-. Tail without a subterminal black band; crown and throat gray like the back. 

 6\ Larger ; wing. 200 to 230 mm. ; bars on breast more dusky ; edge of wing 



white and brown canorus (p. 371) 



h-. Smaller; wing, less than 200 mm.; bars on breast jet-black, broader and more 

 complete; edge of wing white saturatus (p. 372) 



333. CUCULUS MICROPTERUS Oould. 



SHOKT-WINGED CUCKOO. 



CucuIks uiicropferus Gould, Proc. Zool. 8oc. (1837), 137; Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1801), 19, 241; Gr.\xt, Ibis (1800), 5G0; Siiarpe. 

 Hand-List (1000). 2, 158; Mc(Irkgok and \Vorce.ster, Hand-List 

 (1906), 01. 



Negros (Whitehead } . ^lalay and Indian Peninsuhis, Andaman Islands, Bur- 

 mese Provinces, Sumatra. Java, Borneo, Ternate, Ceylon. China, Japan. 



"Adult. — Above dark l)rown, shading into slaty gray on tlie back of 

 the neck and head ; tail rather paler brown, with a broad subterminal 

 black bar and a white tip, all the feathers having about five or six white 

 spots on their (|uills, increasing in size toward the outer feathers, and 

 most of them having white notches on their inner webs; throat gray, 

 sometimes shaded with dusky on the sides of the crop; sides of the head 

 and neck rather darker gray, more like the crown ; remainder of the under 

 parts buff or white, rather broadly barred with black, the under tail- 

 coverts being less regularly marked and with fewer bars; under surface of 

 the wings as in C. cUnorufi. 'Iris l)r()wn ; bill horny, below lighter and 

 tinted with yellow toward tiie base; gape and eyelids bright yellow; feet 

 and legs duller yellow; two front claws horny, two hind ones yellow.' 

 (Bingham .) Length, 305; culmen, '^5 ; wing, "in ; tail. Kill ; tarsus, 'H). 



"Immature. — Above brown, darker on the head; the crown and neck 

 thickly mottled with broad fulvous ends to the feathers; feathers on the 

 back and wings broadly tipped with rufous or hull'; tail very similar to 

 that of the adult, but with the pale jjortion nioi-c rufous; U'neath buff, 

 barred with ])lack, and mottled with gray on the throat in older speci- 

 mens." {Shelhy.) 



