38 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
muschenbroeki, Meyer. 
This species, hitherto only known from Batchian, has recently been recorded from 
South Celebes. Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. pp. 159-160 (1896). 
velutinus, Sharpe. 
HIEROCOCCYX, S. Mii//. 
Sparveroides (/%j.). Five. 9. India (Darjeeling). Assam. China 
(Ningpo, September). 
bocki, Wardlaw-Rams. 
varius (Voll.). Five. $, @2 (jr). Northern India (Etawah, August ; 
Howrah, December). Southern India (Nellore). 
fugax (Horsf.). Ten. Assam. Borneo (Labuan; Baram). Philippine 
Islands (Luzon). 
nanus, Hume. 
crassirostris, ald. One. Celebes. 
CUCULUS, Linn. 
micropterus, Gould. Six. ¢, 9. Northern India (Darjeeling). Southern 
India (Coonoor, January). Malay Peninsula (Malacca). China (Foochow, 
May). 
gularis, Sfeph. Three. @. East Africa (Ribé). West Africa (Gambia). 
South Africa. 
The East African specimen is smaller (wing 7:7 inches) than the West and South 
African ones (wing 8°2 inches); the tail also is much darker beneath, and less 
variegated with white ; the upper mandible, except for a slightly paler region 
at its base, is black. 
canorus, Linn. Seventeen. 2¢, 29. England (Durham, September). 
North Africa (Algiers, September). West Africa. South Africa (Natal ; 
Transvaal: Potchefstroom, January). Palestine (Dothan, March; 
Mt. Carmel, April; Lebanon). Assam. Australia (Queensland). 
No. bal 721 Tristram Mus.) is the Type of C. libanoticus, Tristr., P.Z.S. 1864, 
p. 432. 
intermedius, Vuii. Eleven. 4. India. Borneo (Labuan). Philippine 
Islands. Java. Formosa, April. China (Amoy, October). Japan 
(Nikko, April). 
solitarius, Steph. Six. East Africa (Mamboio). Central Africa (Nyassa: 
land, Zomba, January). South Africa (Natal). 
poliocephalus, Lath. Five. 9. India (Himalayas). Java. Madagascar. 
gabonensis, La/r. 
clamosus, Lath. Four. 9. West Africa (Gambia, Bathurst, September). 
South Africa (Port Natal). ; 
pallidus (Lath.). Thirteen. Southern Australia (Melbourne). Tasmania 
(Hobart). [Java.] 
sonnerati, Lath. Seven, @. India (Bengal). Sumatra (Lampongs, 
Gunung Trang). Java. 
aurivillii, Sjostedt, J.f.0. 1892, p. 313; id. Svenska Ak. Handl. xxvii. No. 1. p. 47, 
Taf. iii. (1895) ; Rezchenow, J.f.0. 1896, p. 52. 
**Male above black, with an iron lustre ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts metallic 
virescent. Primaries dull black above, paler beneath, with their inner margins 
mottled with white. Tail iron-black, unspotted. Chin, throat, sides of the 
neck, and upper breast banded with dull iron-grey. Abdomen reddish-white, 
with bars of the colour of the back. * Under tail-coverts uniform with the 
abdomen, but not barred ; ‘maxima nigra-maculata’; a small whitish spot in 
front of the eyes. Feet nearly white. Iris dark. Maxilla dark corneous; 
mandible pale, the upper half blackish. Length, 31 em.; wing, 165 em. ; 
tail, 15°5; iris, 7mm.” (Sjéstedt). Habitat. Cameroons (Ekundu N’Dene). 
