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Madagascar, and southern Asia as far as the Papuan Islands and 

 Austraha. 



Six species, all residents, are found in South Africa. 



Keij of the Species. 



A. Under parts buff or white, not black. 



a'. Larger, wing 7'8 to 8*9 ; gloss on the 

 crown with a lilac shade ; tail bronzy- 

 black with little green gloss C. ciipreicamla, p. 207. 



6'. Smaller, crown not glossed with lilac-blue. 



a?. No white tips to the tail-feathers ; 



adults with no bars on the upper 



tail-coverts or tail-feathers. 



a^. No white feathers in front of the eye. C. seiiegalensis, p. 206. 



b^. A few white feathers in front of the 



eye C. flechi, ]). 207. 



b'K Tail with white tips. 



a^. Crown blackish, nape with some- 

 times a few white shaft stripes, 

 with or without a few white 



feathers in front of the eye C. bitrcJtelli, p. 203. 



b^. Crown brown, nape with numerous 

 white shaft lines, and marked buff 

 eyebrows C. superciliosus, p. 208. 



B. Under parts black throughout C. nigi-oruf us, ]i. 209. 



472. Centropus burchelli. BurcheU's Coucal. 



Le Coucal houhou, Levaill. Ois. cVAfr. v, p. 72, pi. 219 (1806). 

 Centropus burchelli, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 321 (1838) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 246 (1867) ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 408 (1893) ; 



[Botletli river] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. 114 [Beira dist.] ; Marshall, 



Ibis, 1900, p. 252 [Mashonaland]. 

 Centropus senegalensis {nee Linn.), Ay res. Ibis, 1871, p. 261 [Limpopo] ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 617 (in part) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 



Afr. pp. 162, 810 (1875-84) ; Oates, Matabelcland, p. 305 (1881) ; 



Holub d- Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 163 (1882) ; Aijres, Ibis, 1884, 



p. 225 [Potchefstroom] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 120 (1899). 

 Centropus natalensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 246 ; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887 



p. 52 [Zoutspansberg] ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 362 (1891) ; id. B. 



Afr. i, p. 123 (1896) ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 168 [de Kaap] ; W. L. 



Sclater, Ibis, 1899, p. 286 [Inhambane] ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 



106 [Tete] ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 28, fig. 3 [Albany]. 

 " Vlei Lourie," of the Colonists ; " Ufukwe " of Zulus (Woodward), 

 whence " Fouqua " of Natal Colonists. 



