328 ON THE BIEDS INHABITING [1875. 



Coiicon a ventre raye de TisJe Panan, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Gain. p. 120, pi. 79. 

 Cucuh(sjlaviventns, Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89, no. 46 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Cucuhts radiatus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 420, no. 44 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Sonnerat's account and figure of this supposed Philippine species of Cuculus agrees well with 

 Cuculus solitariiis, Vieillot f ; and I have little doubt that Sonnerat in this, as in so many other 

 instances, described from an African and not a Philippine individual. The titles, however, 

 founded on Sonnerat's plates have been much bandied about, and applied to various species of 

 Tr.Z. S^ix. Asiatic Cuckoos, by different authors (conf. Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 900; Cat. Calc. Mus. 

 ^' ^^^' p. 330 ; Ibis, 1806, p. 362 ; Strickl. J. A. S. B. 1844, p. 390 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. iv. pt. 1, p. 29 ; 

 Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 14). 



EuDTNAMis, Vigors & Horsfield. 



01. * EUDTNAMIS MINDANENSIS. 



Cuculus mindanensis ncevius, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 130, no. 12, $ adult, vel c? adolesc.j 

 " Ins. Mindanao." 



Cuculus mindanensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 169, no. 3 (1760), ex Briss. ; Walden, Ibis, 1809, 

 pp. 330, 340. \_Antea, pp. 60, 66.] 



Le Coucou tacheU de I'isle de Panay, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 120, pi. 78, ? adult, vel 

 6 adolesc, " Antigua." 



Cuculus variegatus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faim. Insubr. ii. p. 89, no. 45 (1786), ex Sonn. 



Cuculus pamy anus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 413, no. 29 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Hal). Guimaras, in March {Meyer). 



Both examples are of males in full black plumage. Mr. Swmhoe (Ibis, 1870, p. 233) 

 seems to regard the Chinese species, E. maculata (Gm.), as distinct from the Philippine, 

 and moreover separates the Hainan form from the Chinese, and identifies it with the Himalayan. 



The Guimaras examples have the plumage black shaded with green and not with blue. 

 I add the principal dimensions (in inches) of six known species of the group, taken from males 



in adult black plumage. 



Longitudo 



alie. caudiB. 



E. honorata 7-50 8 Ceylon. 



7-50 7-75 Candeish. 



E. malayana 7-75 8-50 Malacca. 



,, 7-50 8 Java. 



E. mindanensis 7-50 8 Guimaras. 



7-50 7-50 



E. ransomi 8-50 9 Bouru. 



E. ntjimnter 8 8-37 Moratai. 



E. cyayiocephala 8 8-50 Queensland. 



The bill in the Malaccan bird is longer and not so high as that of the Javan. 



t Cundus capcnsis, Gm., founded on le Coikou du cap de Bonae-esperance, ilontb. (Hist Nat. Ois. vi. p. 353), 

 is a Cuckoo iu hepatic plumage, whicli it is difficult to determine. 



