CUCULID^ 



COCCYSTES 



193 



467. Coccystes glandarius. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



Cuculus glandarius, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 169 (1766). 



Oxylophus glandarius, P. L. Sclatcr, P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 22 [Cathcart]; 



Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1867). 

 Coccystes glandarius, Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 225 



(1872) ; Sharjye, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 593 ; Dresser, B. Eur. v, p. 219, pi. 



300 (1874) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 157, 810 (1875-84) ; 



Ayres, Ihis, 1879, p. 298 [Potcliefstroom] ; Butler, Feilden, and Beid, 



Zool. 1882, p. 207 [Blaanwkrantz river] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 291 ; 



Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 329 [Kroonstad] ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 



212 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 123 (1896) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1896, p. 242 



[Salisbury] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 113 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 



1900, p. 251 ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 22 [Albany div.]. 



Description. Adult male. — Crown, which is crested, grey with 

 black shaft lines to the feathers, rest of the upper surface including 

 the wings and tail slaty-brown, the scapulars, secondaries, wing- 



FiG. Gi.— Coccystes glandarius. X i. 



coverts and tail- quills tipped with white, the latter more strongly 

 towards the outermost ; ear-coverts and feathers round the eye 

 grey, Hke the crown ; throat and upper breast pale ochreous- 

 yellow, this colour extending on to the sides of the neck so as to 

 form a half collar, all the rest of the lower surface white ; under 

 wing-coverts tinged with ochreous. 



Iris brownish-hazel ; bill brown, yellow at base of lower 

 mandible ; legs and feet bluish-brown. 



Length about 14-75; wing 7-75; tail 8-25; cuhnen 1-0; tarsus 

 1-25. 



The female is eventually hke the male but appears to take 

 longer to assume the adult plumage. The young bird has a com- 



13 VOL. III. 



