370 - MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus CUCULUS Linneus, 1758. 
Secondaries about half the leng#h of primaries; wing long and flat; 
tail shorter than wing; in adults the upper parts are nearly uniform brown 
or gray, chin and throat gray ; abdomen white barred with black. 
Species. 
a. Tail with a subterminal black band; crown and throat grayish contrasting 
with mantle ‘and bachk-es- se ese ee eee ee eee micropterus (p. 370) 
a’, Tail without a subterminal black band; crown and throat gray like the back. 
bt. Larger; wing, 200 to 230 mm.; bars on breast more dusky; edge of wing 
white ‘and browt -.220s-3072. ea, See eee. canorus (p. 371) 
b*. Smaller; wing, less than 200 mm.; bars on breast jet-black, broader and more 
complete: vedge on wimg) wiltte eee cee eee eee saturatus (p. 372) 
333. CUCULUS MICROPTERUS Gould. 
SHORT-WINGED CUCKOO. 
Cuculus micropterus GouLp, Proce. Zool. Soe. (1837), 187; SHELLEY, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 241; Granv, Ibis (1896), 560; SHaRpE. 
Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 61. 
Negros (Whitehead). Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Andaman Islands, Bur- 
mese Provinces, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Ternate, Ceylon, China, Japan. 
“Adult.—Above dark brown, shading into slaty gray on the back of 
the neck and head; tail rather paler brown, with a broad subterminal 
black bar and a white tip, all the feathers having about five or six white 
spots on their quills, increasing in size toward the outer feathers, and 
most of them having white notches on their inner webs; throat gray, 
sometimes shaded with dusky on the sides of the crop; sides of the head 
and neck rather darker gray, more like the crown; remainder of the under 
parts buff or white, rather broadly barred with black, the under tail- 
coverts being less regularly marked and with fewer bars; under surface of 
the wings as in C. canorus. ‘Iris brown; bill horny, below lighter and 
tinted with yellow toward the base; gape and eyelids bright yellow; feet 
and legs duller yellow; two front claws horny, two hind ones yellow.’ 
(Bingham.) Length, 305; culmen, 25; wing, 20; tail, 160; tarsus, 20. 
“Tmmature.—Above brown, darker on the head; the crown and neck 
thickly mottled with broad fulvous ends to the feathers; feathers on the 
back and wings broadly tipped with rufous or buff; tail very similar to 
that of the adult, but with the pale portion more rufous; beneath buff, 
barred with black, and mottled with gray on the throat in older speci- 
mens.” (Shelley.) 
