CUCULID.E 



CUCULUS 



175 



in Andersson' s B. Damaraland, ix 228 (1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 585 ; Buckleij, Ibis, 1874, p. 366 [Bainangwato] ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Laijard's B. S.' Afr. pp. 148, 809 (1875, 84) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 

 245 [Umfuli river]; id. Cat. B. M. xix, p. 244 (1891); id. B. Afr. i, 

 p. 123 (1896); Woodivard Bros. Natal B. p. 115 (1899); Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1900, p. 252 [Salisbury]. 



Fig. 59. — Cncidus gidurls. x -/g. 



Description. Adult male. — General colour above, slaty-grey, wing- 

 quills slightly darker with white bars on the inner webs ; outer tail- 

 feathers with about six complete white bars on the inner wel), the 

 bars diminish towards the central pair of feathers which are spotted 

 with white along the shaft ; throat, sides of the face, neck and 

 upper breast pale grey, rest of the under surface and under wing- 

 coverts white with narrow l)lack transverse bars. 



Iris yellowish-brown ; bill, including the portion surrounding the 



Fig. go.— Outer tail feather of Caculus gularis (from Sharpe, P.Z.S. , 1873). 



nostrils, yellow, the terminal half of the upper and third of the lower 

 mandible brown ; legs and feet yellow. 



Length about 12-75 ; wing 8-4 ; tail 6-3 ; culmen 0-85 ; tarsus 08. 

 The female apparently in some cases differs from the male in having 

 the lower throat and breast suffused with rufous-buff. 



