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ends ; general color of the under parts huffish white, with blackish brown 

 bars, slightly broader on the chin and throat than on the breast. Length, 

 297; wing, 184. 



"Hepatic phase. — General color of the upper parts cinnamon, barred 

 on the head, mantle, and wings with dusky black; lower back and upper 

 tail-coverts with a few black spots next to their shafts; outer tail-coverts 

 with partial traces of dark bars; tail partially barred with black and 

 marked with white near the shafts, the tips, and some of the edges of 

 the feathers, and with a broad subterminal black band; under parts 

 huffish white, rather darker on the throat, and all the feathers barred with 

 dusky black. Length, 397 ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 216 ; tail, 170 ; tarsus, 19." 

 {Shelley.) 



"We secured a single specimen in Siquijor in February, 1891; a second 

 specimen was seen but not secured. The specimen in question, a male, 

 measures, 311 in length; wing, 201; tail, 161; culmen, 27; tarsus, 22; 

 middle toe with claw, 26. Iris brownish yellow, with inner ring of 

 dull brown; feet bright yellow; nails yellowish, except that of middle toe, 

 which is black; upper mandible black, lower light yellowish." {Bourna 

 and Worcester MS.) 



335. CUCULUS SATURATUS Hodgson. 

 HIMALAYAN CUCKOO. 



Cuculus saturatus Hodgson, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1843), 12, 942; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 

 3, 114; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 61. 



Cuculus intermedins Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 252. 



Cuculus canoroides Blasius, Grnis (1888), 6 (of reprint) ; Jour. fUr Ornitb. 

 (1890), 145. 



Mindanao (Platen); Palawan (Platen). Eastern Siberia, Indian Peninsula, 

 Andaman Islands, Malay Archipelago, Burmese provinces, northeastern Australia, 

 Japan, China, New Guinea, New Britain. 



"Adult male. — Very similar to C. canorus, but smaller, with the bill 

 shorter and stouter. The plumage differs in tlie upper ^parts being of a 

 deeper and more blue-gray, the breast and under tail-coverts more washed 

 with buff, and the bars on the body black, broader and more sharply 

 defined than in C. canoriis. 'Bill above blackish, below greenish; gape 

 and mouth inside deep orange; eyelids bright yellow; iris stone-color; 

 legs dull yellow; claws pale.' (Cripps.) Length, 325; culmen, 23; 

 wing, 188; tail, 160; tarsus, 18. 



"Adult female. — Differs only in plumage from the male in having the 

 base of the throat shaded with huffish rufous, as is the case in C. canorus. 

 Length, 292; cuhnen, 18; wing, 188; tail, 152; tarsus, 18. 



"Nestling. — General plumage above blackish brown, with narrow ter- 

 minal white margins to tlie feathers, which margins are broadest on the 

 wings and tail; the white nuchal patch so characteristic of C. canorus is 



