CENTROPUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 163 
of a thick bushy tree or amongst the shoots from a cut forest tree 
(Pollard?) It is about three feet in length by a foot in diameter 
with an opening in the middle cavity in the inside rather flat. The 
young may be perceived from the outside. I never saw but two 
nests, one with a single young bird in it, the other an old one made 
of small sticks. This bird is called the ‘ Rain bird’ by the Kaffirs, 
and is said to call before a change in the weather. N.B. Inside of nest 
daubed with mud.” His note contained a sketch of an oblong oval 
nest made of twigs with a flattened oval opening near the centre. 
Head dull black, with a greenish tinge when viewed from the 
light, the shafts glossy black ; interscapulary region, scapulars, and 
wing-coverts dull brownish rufous, the shafts glossy chestnut; greater 
coverts and quills bright rufous, with dusky tips, the inner secon- 
daries dull brownish rufous with an olivaceous gloss; lower back 
and rump dusky, minutely barred with dull ochre; upper tail- 
coverts and tail dull greenish, inclining to oily green, the former 
generally with obsolete bars of ochre; feathers under the eye and 
ear-coverts black, like the head ; entire sides of face and neck, as 
well as the under surface of body, more or less deep ochre, inclin- 
ing to white on the centre of abdomen, the shafts glossy fulvous, 
especially distinct on the throat and sides ‘of neck, the flanks with 
remains of dusky cross bars; under wing-coverts pale buff, inner 
surface of wing dull rufous ; bill and feet black. 
Young.—More dingy above and paler below than the adult; head 
dull brownish ; upper surface barred across with dusky black, with 
remains of dusky bars on the sides of the breast and flanks; upper 
tail-coverts and tail barred more or less distinctly with pale ochre ; 
beak horn-brown, the lower mandible yellowish. 
Fig. Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. v. p. 72, pl. 219. 
146. Crnrropus sUPERCILIOSUS. 
White Eyebrowed Lark-heeled Cuckoo. 
By many people the present bird has been considered to be the 
young of O. senegalensis, but it may be distinguished at once by its 
broad white eyebrow. 
A fine specimen of this bird was sent to us in the flesh, 
during the winter months, from Swellendam by the Hon. R. 
Southey; its stomach contained insects. Mr. Rickard has ob- 
tained it both at Port Elizbabeth and Hast London: near the latter 
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