COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 157 
140. CoccysTEs GLANDARIUS. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 
This bird, which can be told from the other species by its ashy- 
grey crest contrasting with the brown back, and by the white spots 
on the wings, is a migrant from Europe, and is of rare occurrence 
within the colony. We have seen three specimens from Caffraria 
and one was also contained in Captain Bulger’s Windyogelberg col- 
lection. The British Museum’ possesses an example from Port 
Elizabeth. Mr. Herbert Trevelyan of the 32nd Light Infantry pro- 
cured a single example at King William’s Town. Mr. Barratt has 
also shown us a specimen which he shot in November, 1874, among 
_ the mimosa bushes on Modder River: he says that they return there 
every year. Numerous specimens were collected by the late Mr. 
Andersson in Ondonga, and he says that it is not uncommon 
during the wet season in Damara Land, and also about the river 
Okavango. Anchieta has also forwarded it plentifully from Huilla 
and Capangombe in Mossamedes, as well as from the river Cunene. 
Adult male-——Above brown, somewhat. inclining to olive-brown, 
the scapulars slightly, the wing-coverts and inner secondaries more 
- conspicuously tipped with whitish; quills darker brown above, the 
inner primaries narrowly edged with whitish at the tips, the inner 
face of the quills whitish ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
brown like the back, the outermost of the latter white on the outer 
web, the inner ones tipped with white; tail brown, broadly tipped 
with white ; crown of the head and crest bluish grey, with narrow 
blackish shaft-lines; sides of the face and hind neck rather darker 
brown, the ear-ccverts washed with grey ; throat and chest yellowish 
white, the former somewhat tinged with greyish, with indistinct 
hair-like blackish shaft-lines ; rest of under surface purer white, the 
flanks shaded with greyish; under wing-coverts yellowish, the outer 
ones and the axillaries white, the latter somewhat shaded with ashy ; 
bill brown, yellowish at base of lower mandible; feet bluish, shaded 
with brown ; iris pale brown. Total length, 15 inches ; culmen, 1:1 ; 
wing, 8°15 ; tail, 9; tarsus, 1.3. 
Adult female.—Generally similar to the male, but having a faint 
rufous tinge on the inner webs of the primaries. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Europe, pt. xxviii. 
