from the Ruo and Shire Rivers. 587 



34. CoccYSTEs jACOBiNus (Bodd.) ; Shelley^ Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xix. p. 217 (1891). 



a. Ad. Ruo River, 1899. 



Not uncommon, but difficult to shoot. Several of these 

 birds were seen on the Elephant-marsh, helping Chalcites 

 cupreus to clear the bushes of insects during the flood. 



35. CoccYSTEs GLANDARiLs (Linu.) ; Shcllej, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xix. p. 212 (1891). 



I saw several of these birds, but only managed to bag one 

 — a very fine male. 



36. Chrysococcyx smaragdineus (Sw.) ; Shelley, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xix. p. 280 (1891). 



This beautiful bird is not uncommon in the more open 

 bush near the Ruo. The male is very easily shot, for he will, 

 during the early part of the breeding-season, take his post 

 on a tall tree and utter his loud whistle, which can be heard 

 for a great distance, remaining in the same place for hours 

 together. These birds often haunt the same tree day after 

 day. They are extremely pugnacious, and are frequently 

 seen chasing one another high in the air. I obtained six 

 males, but only one female. 



37. Chrysococcyx klaasi (Steph.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 7. 



This species was much rarer than either the Emerald or 

 the Golden Cuckoo, but was often to be heard calling. It 

 was very seldom seen, as it keeps to low thick cover. 



38. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 7. 



This species arrives much sooner than the other Cuckoos. 

 It is very noisy and not at all easily shot. At the end of 

 February, when tiie floods were very bad at Chiromo, I was 

 out in a canoe looking for specimens. In one place, where 

 a few bushes stuck out above the water, I saw fully twenty 

 individuals of this species, as well as many other insect- 

 eating birds. On reaching the bushes I found out the 

 reason ; they were simply covered with insects driven up into 



