200 Mr. F. E. Beddard ow the Anatovnj 



Five eggs measure : 1-87 x 1*37 ; 1*87 x 1-31 ; 1-81 x 1-25; 

 ISlx 1-37; 1-75x1 38 iucli. 



In colour the young birds repeat the pattern of their 

 parents. The head and occiput are clear greyish white^ even 

 lighter than the ashy head of the adult. The lores and 

 postorbital spaces are black. The other parts are sooty 

 black. The legs and feet are dark brown, affording no hint 

 of the yellow or orange hue of ruaturity. 



XX. — On the Anatomy of the Radiated Fruit-Cuckoo 

 (Carpococcyx I'adiatus). By Frank E. Beduard, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



So far as I am aware, there is no published account of the 

 anatomy of Carpococcyx. Being particularly interested in 

 the group o£ Cuckoos, I am glad to have this opportunity of 

 contributing to ornithology some account of its structure, 

 which is based upon a specimen recently living in the Gardens 

 of the Zoological Society of London"^. 



a. External Characters. 



As in Cuckoos generally, the oil-gland is nude. 



I counted 10 rectrices and 18 remiges. The fifth cubital 

 remex is not missing. 



The ventral feather-tracts in Carpococcyx separate from 

 each other about halfway down the neck. On the breast 

 the tract of each side is not more than two or three feathers 

 Avide. A small tract of feeble feathers runs thence to the 

 hypopteron. At about the middle of the sternum the tract 

 divides, and each half is very rapidly reduced to the width 

 of a single feather. There is no union of the divided tracts 

 whatever at the cloaca or anywhere else ; they are completely 

 separate throughout. 



Dorsally there is a very marked break between the cervical 



* Eeceived August 31st, 1882. See P. Z. S. 1882, p. 358. It lived 

 nearly 18 years in the Gardens, and died June 7th, 1900. It was fed 

 mostly on a ver>etable diet with a little scraped raw meat intermixed ; 

 occasionally insects were given, and a dead mou^e every other day. 



