CATALOGUE OF CUCULL. 4] 
SCYTHROPS, Lath. 
nove-hollandiz, Lath. Six. ~9. Duke of York Island, July. Australia. 
CENTROPODINA. 
CENTROPUS, ///. 
ateralbus, Less. Three. 6, 9, ?jr. New Britain (Blanche Bay, May and 
June). 
milo, Gould. 
goliath, Bp. Four. 26, ?jr. Gilolo. [Celebes]. 
menebiki (Less. &: Gurn.). One. North-West New Guinea. 
aruensis (Salvad.). 
violaceus (Q. & @.). One. ¢. New Britain (Blanche Bay). 
chalybeus (Salvad.); bernsteini, Sch/.; spilopterus, G.R.Gr.; mindorensis 
(Steere). 
T steerii, Bourns & Worces. Occ. Pap. Minnes. Acad. i. p 14 (1894); Grant, 
Ibis, 1896, pp. 474-475. One. ¢. Philippine Islands (Mindoro, Calapan, 
July). 
‘Sexes alike. Forehead, crown, and nape, sides of face, chin, throat, and upper 
breast greenish black. The coarse shafts of the feathers shiny black, the webs 
with a faint greenish tinge. Hind neck and back, sides of neck, wing-coverts, 
and breast smoky brown, with faint greenish tinge. Hind neck and rump 
slaty black, tips of feathers with greenish tinge. Upper tail-coverts and upper 
surface of tail uniform dull metallic green. Shafts of feathers jet black from 
base to tip. Upper surface of wings earthy, with metallic green gloss like the 
tail, except on the outer four primaries, which have little gloss. . Abdomen 
browner than and with less metallic wash. Flanks, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts like the rump. Under surface of tail black, with faint metallic blue 
gloss. Under wing-coverts and axillaries like breast. Under surface of wing 
uniform blackish brown. Seven males measure as follows:—Length, 16°70 
inches ; wing, 5-90; tail, 849; culmen, 1°58; tarsus, 1:65. A female measures 
19:50 inches in length. Wing, 6°21; tail, 916; culmen, 1°74; tarsus, 1°69. 
Habitat. Mindoro . . . in deep forests, where it is not uncommon.” (Bourns 
and Worcester.) 
Our specimen was collected in 1890 by Dr. Platen, and was made the type of a 
new species by Dr. W. Blasius under an unpublished MS. name, which we 
suppress. The species apparently differs from C. mindorensis in its more powerful 
bill, and in the shorter nail on the hind toe. The four outer primaries are 
glossed with oily green equally with the others. 
nigricans (Salvud.). One. New Guinea (Port Moresby). 
phasianus (Lath.). Seven. od. Northern Australia (Horn Island, Torres 
Straits, June; Port Essington, December). Eastern Australia (Moreton 
Bay). 
chlororhynchus, Blyth ; rectunguis, Strickt. 
sinensis (Steph.). Twenty. ¢, @, pull. Northern India. Southern India 
(Nellore ; Madras). Burmah. Sumatra (Palembang, Batu Pantjeh, July). 
Java (Preanger Regencies, April). Borneo (Labuan, December ; Banjer- 
massim). Northern China, December, and Foochow, May. 
purpureus, Shelley. One. Java. 
This specimen, collected by Leschenault and acquired by Lord Derby from Lead- 
beater in 1818; was identified by him as Cuculus nigrorufus, Cuv. It perfectly 
agrees with the figure of C. purpureus given by Shelley (Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. 
xix. pp. 348, 349, pl. xiii., 1891), 
viridis (Scop.). Seven. 9, ?jr. Philippine Islands (Cebu, April ; Luzon, 
Monte Alban, February ; Cataguan). 
toulou (P. L. 8. Miill.). Seven. ¢. Madagascar, July. 
insularis, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvii. p. 373 (1894). 
“Quite identical in nuptial plumage with C. fowlou, Miill. ; in other plumages, how- 
ever, very much paler; the posterior underparts barred with pale brownish buff 
