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Gambia. Having no more specimens in our collection to 

 support this fact, I think it better not to attach too much 

 importance to it, because there is not sufficient certainty 

 of its really coming from the 'place mentioned. A plate 

 with good figures of both P. aeneus and australis is given 

 by Mr. Sharpe in his Birds of South Africa. 



Iris carmineous, bill lemon-yellow, a circle round the 

 eye grass-green, bare skin ultramarine, feet black. 



Coccystes cafer. 



Coccystes cafer (Licht.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 596. 



Coccystes afer (Leach), Schl. Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 44. 



Oxylophus ater (Steph.), Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 188. 



Hab. Tropical and Southern Africa. 



Collected at Bavia, on the St. Paul's River. 



This bird is pretty common in all the places we have 

 visited, and keeps by preference in brushwood and the 

 skirts of the high forest in the vicinity of the rivers. 



The plumage of two young specimens is in a well-ad- 

 vanced state of change, showing a fully developed alar 

 speculum and being intermixed all over , especially on crest , 

 throat and wings, with feathers belonging to the adult 

 plumage. One of these specimens was shot in January, 

 the other in March. 



Iris grayish brown, bill black, feet lead-color. 



Chry sococcy X cupreus, 



Cuculus cupreus , Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 40 ; — Schl, 

 Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 31 ; — Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 591. 



Chrysococcyx auratus , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 190. 



Chrysococcyx cupreus, F. & Hartl. Vög. 0. Afr. p. 522; — 

 Rchw. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 6; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 143. 



Hab. Tropical and Southern Africa. 



Collected in the forests behind Monrovia. 



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