410 cuculid;e. 



these was recorded in 1820, by the eldest Brehm, who stated 

 (Beitriige, i. p. 501) that one, of two seen, was shot many 

 years before near Liibben in Lusatia : the second, in 1837, 

 by Hornschuch and Schilling (Verz. der in Poininern vor- 

 komm. Vogel, p. 12) and by Herr E. F. Homeyer (Syst. 

 Uebers. Yog. Pomruerns, pp. 9, 10) as having been shot in 

 August, also many years before, near Teterow in Pomerania, 

 and taken to Herr Pauly, who sent it to the Greifswald 

 Museum, where it still is (Journ. fur. Orn. 1876, p. 117). 

 Herr Finger included the species in his ' Ornis Austriaca ' 

 (Verhandl. z.-b. Ver. Wien, 1857, p. 562) from an example, 

 prepared by him, which was sent in the flesh from Croatia 

 to Prince Richard Khevenhuller in 1856, as the Editor is 

 kindly informed by Herr von Pelzeln. Von Nordmann re- 

 cords (Faune Pont. p. 209) a specimen killed in Bessarabia, 

 the only one known to him in the Russian empire. Several 

 examples, say Drs. Hartlaub and Kriiper (Griech. Jahresz. 

 1875, p. 184), have of late years been killed in Attica, and 

 the latter adds that it is common in Asia Minor. Col. 

 St. John found it breeding near Shiraz, the most eastern 

 locality it is yet known to reach. It is by no means rare in 

 parts of Palestine, though never in great numbers, and, as 

 in all countries not lying to the south of the Mediterranean, 

 a summer-visitant only. In Egypt, on the contrary, it is, 

 according to Capt. Shelley, a resident, and both there and 

 in Nubia may be met with abundantly. Indeed, it seems to 

 occur over the greater part of Africa, becoming however less 

 plentiful towards the south, and being very rare within the 

 Cape Colony, though not uncommon in Damara-land. It 

 has also been obtained at various places on the west coast, 

 and, according to Webb and Berthelot (Orn. Canar. p. 25), 

 it occasionally visits the Canaries. In Barbary it is a regu- 

 lar summer-visitant, arriving there, as it does in its other 

 haunts at the same season, earlier than its better-known 

 relative — Drake (Ibis, 1867, p. 425) having seen it at Tangier, 

 January 10th. In Savoy and Italy it is of very rare occur- 

 rence, but it has occurred both on the mainland and in 

 Sicily, as also in Malta. 



