CUCULID^ CENTROPUS 207 



Description. Adult. — Upper half of head, back of neck, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail brownish-black strongly glossed with 

 green ; tail-feathers without white tips ; wing bright chestnut ; 

 beneath white tinged with buff. 



Iris red ; bill and legs black. 



Length 16-5 ; wing 6'6 ; tail 8-5 ; culmen 1-2 ; tarsus 1'6. 



The young bird differs in having blackish bars on the mantle 

 and wings, and generally traces of buff bars on the upper tail- 

 coverts and tail. 



Distrihiition. — Throughout almost the whole of tropical Africa ; 

 within our limits has been once obtained at Bamangwato in 

 Bechuanaland by Buckley. 



474. Centropus flecki. Fleck's Coucal. 



Centropus flecki, Eeichenow, Ornith. Monatsh. i, p. 84 (1893) ; Fled-, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 897, pi. iv. 



Description. Adult. — Eesembling C. senegalensis in every respect 

 but with a few white feathers in front of the eye. 



A young bird has the upper half of head and back of the neck 

 dull brown ; bill yellowish with culmen dark brown ; wings, upper 

 tail-coverts and tail barred. 



Length 16-5 ; wing 6-7 ; tail 8-5. 



Distribution. — This bird was obtained at Nocana on the 

 Okavango, not far from Lake Ngami, by Dr. Edward Fleck. 



475. Centropus cupreicauda. Bronzy-tailed Coitcal. 



Centropus cupreicaudus, Beiclienorv, Ornith. Monatsh. iv, p. 53 (1896). 

 Centropus monachus, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 359 (1891) (in part 

 specs, p. to w.) 



Description. — Larger than C. senegalensis ; crown of the head 

 glossed with blue with a lilac shade; tail bronzy-black with very 

 little green gloss. 



Wing 7-8 to 8-9 ; tail 8-0 to 10-0. 



Distribution. — The type of this species was obtained in Damara- 

 land whence the bird ranges to Benguela the Upper Zambesi valley 

 and Lake Ngami. 



