374 MANUAL OF PHILIPPIXE BIRDS. 



like the breast; under surface of the (juills dark brown, with a large 

 basal portion of their inner webs rufous-buff, more or less barred with 

 dark brown. Bill black, with base of lower mandible gray ; legs greenish 

 gray. Length, 'Zo-i; culmen, 19; wing, 122; tail, 122; tarsus, 18. 



"Immature. — Above iiifous; the upper back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts barred w^ith olive-shaded black; a band of this color runs down 

 the centers of some of the tail-feathers, and most of these feathers have 

 bold black spots near their ends and occasionally white tips; sides of 

 the head and sides of the neck rufous like the crown; remainder of the 

 under parts white, with the blackish bars on the throat and chest broader 

 than in the adult." {Shelley.) 



"An adult male from the Calamianes Islands measures, 216 in length; 

 wing, 104; tail, 98; culmen, 2-1; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 21. 

 Iris dark brown ; legs and feet drab ; upper mandible black, lower dark 

 gray. Our Tablas specimens are immature, but there seems little room 

 for doubt as to their identity.'' {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus CACOMAXTIS S. Miiller, 1843. 



Size small ; wing short and pointed ; third primaiy longest ; primaries 

 exceeding secondaries by one-third of length of wing; tail strongly grad- 

 uated, longer than wing. In this genus the young have a barred plu- 

 mage which disappears in the adult; Penthoceryx has no change of pattern 

 but retains the barred livery in the adult state. 



337. CACOMANTIS MERULINUS (Scopoli). 

 RXJFOUS-BELLIED CUCKOO. 



Cuculus merulinus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 89. 



Cacomantis merulinus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 268; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 159; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906). 62. 



Ma-sakiV, Manila. 



Balabac (Everett); Bantayan (Mcdregor) ; Basilan (titeere, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns <(• Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao 

 (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns d- Worcester) ; Caluya 

 (Porter); Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Steere Exp.. Bourns d- Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Leyte (Hteere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Gevers, 

 Everett, Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Goodfelloic) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Xegros (Steere Exp., 

 Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Sonnerat, Steere, Steere Exp.) ; 

 Samar (Steere Exp.) ; Semirara (Porter); Sibay (Porter); Siquijor (Celestino) ; 

 Sulu (Platen, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi 



