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that there is hardly aiiv part of Africa not reached by our Euro- 

 pean cuckoos on migration. 



For the range of tiie Little Cockoo Cucidus caiiorus minor in 

 Africa see mv remarks in the Ibis, 1919, p. 459. It may usually be 

 distinguished by the short wing measurement 190-217 mm. 



(I onlv saw a solitarv spécimen of the South African Cuckoo on 

 Jan. I5th. It was feeding on caterpillars. — W. P. L.) 



Chrysococcyx cupreus cupreus. 



Cuculus cupreus Shaw, Mus. Lever., 1792, p. 157. — Type loca- 

 litv : unknown (Gambia cf. C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 419)- 



Synonyi/i. — Chalcites smaragdineus Swains (1837-Gambia). 

 Cuculus splendidus Gray (1847-Gambia). 



The onlv Southern Nigérian spécimen of the Long-tailed yellow- 

 bellied Emerald Cuckoo was sent to the British Muséum from 

 the Oban district, 500 ft., bv Mr. P. A.Talbot who obtained it on 

 May 8th. 191 1. 



The svnonvmv of this Cuckoo was worked eut and published bv 

 nivself in Ibis, 191 2, pp. 244-246, and by Claude Grant in Ibis, 

 1915, p. 418, where the latter author showed that C. smaragdineus 

 of Swains was antedated bv C. cupreus of Shaw. Sci.ater and 

 Praed confused the names again in Ibis, 19 19, p- 644 but corrected 

 their mistake in Ibis, 1920, p. 853. 



Van Someren has now, however, caused indescribable confusion 

 bv actuallv using the name auratus Gmel. (which name is a syno- 

 nvm of the White-bellied Didric Cuckoo -Lampromorpha caprins 

 BoDD.) for the yellow-bellied Emerald Cuckoo and moreover 

 naming a new race when using the wrong spécifie name ! (See 

 Novitates Zoologicae, XXIX, 1922, p. 53). 



I hâve, therefore, written a spécial article to clear up the syno- 

 nymy of this and the foUowing species of Cuckoos in the Novitates 

 Zoologicae, vol. XXX, which must be consulted. 



