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and dusky, in nearly equal quantity (uniform greenish dusky in corresponding 
plumage of C. toulou).” (Ridgway). Dimensions variable, feet apparently in- 
vena pty smaller than those of C. toulou. Habitat. Aldabra and Assumption 
slands. 
bengalensis (Gm.). Five. ¢@. Northern India, November. Formosa, May. 
javanicus (Dumont). Eleven. 9. Malay Peninsula. Sumatra (Palembang, 
Kaban, December). Java (Bantam, April). Borneo (Banjermassim ; Labuan, 
November). 
epomidis, Bp.; leucogaster (Leach); nigrorufus (Cuv.); anselli, Sharpe ; 
fischeri, Rchiw. 
flecki, Rchnw. Ornith. Monatsber. i, p. 84 (1893); Fleck, J.f.0. 1894, pp. 210, 362, 
397, taf. iv. 
“© Pileum, nape, and sides of the head brown, shafts of the feathers dark ; a white loral 
spot, back and wings rufous ; the tips of the outer primaries brownish, the inner 
barred with brown ; the whole belly white washed with pale fulvous, the under 
tail-coverts faintly banded with brownish ; tail feathers and upper tail-coverts 
dark, slightly shaded with metallic green-grey, the former very lightly barred 
at the tip, darker beneath ; greater under wing-coverts rufous, lesser fulvous 
white ; bill pale horn colour, culmen darker ; feet black. Total length, 420 mm. ; 
wing, 170; tail, 215; bill, 27 ; tarsus, 40.” (Reichenow). Habitat. Damaraland. 
This species is not mentioned in Shelley’s Birds of Africa, vol. i. (1896). 
monachus, /viipp. One. ¢. Abyssinia. 
Cupreicaudus, Rchnw. Ornith. Monatsber. iv. p. 53 (1896). 
“Distinguished from C. monachus by being somewhat larger, with the upper head 
and neck bright violet blue, not deep blue ; the tail and upper tail-coverts 
copper coloured, not steel-green. The upper tail-coverts are mostly narrowly 
bordered with pale brown. Length, 460-480 mm. ; wing, 210-225 ; tail, 220-240; 
bill, 42-44; tarsus, 52-56. Zahitat. South West Africa from Angola to Damara- 
land.” (Reichenow). 
senegalensis (Linn.). Seven. 4, 9. East Africa (Zambesi). West 
Africa (Gambia, Bathurst, August ; Senegal ; Cape Palmas, March). 
superciliosus, Hempr. & Ehr. Two. Abyssinia. 
natalensis, Shelly. Hight. 43,29, @jr. East Africa (Ribé; Mombasa ; 
Kikombo, August). South Africa (Transvaal: Potchefstroom, June; De 
Kaap. ; Fig Tree Creek, June; Port Natal). 
Reichenow (Ornith. Monatsber. iv. p. 53, 1896), considers that C. burchelli, Swains. 
An. in Menag., p. 321 (1838), which is generally included as a synonym of 
C. senegalensis (Linn.) should be referred to this species. 
melanops, Less, One. - 9. Philippine Islands (Samar, July). 
celebensis, (). d: G. Three. North Celebes. 
C. kangeanensis, Vorderman, (Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1893. p. 190) 
appears to belong to this species. It differs principally in dimensions, which 
in all cuckoos, and in Centropi especially, are exceedingly variable. 
celebensis, sub. sp. rufescens (Meyer & Wiylesw.), Abhandl. u. Berichte, Zool. Mus. 
Dresd. n. 2, p. 11 (1896) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv. pp. 160, 164 (1897). 
“Very like C. celebensis, but much more rufescent.” Habitat. Eastern Peninsula of 
Celebes (Meyer & Wiglesw.). Apparently also Western and Southern Celebes. 
(Hartert, loc. cit.). 
andamanensis, Beaven. Two. ¢, 9. South Andaman Islands (Port Blair, 
May ; Gopla Kabung, May). 
unirufus (Cab. & Heine). 
PHCENICOPHAINA. 
SAUROTHERA, Vie///. 
dominicensis, Z7fr. Three. San Domingo (Las Canetas). 
vetula (Linn.). Seven. Jamaica (Spanish Town). 
merlini, /’0rb. One. Cuba. 
