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ends; general color of the under parts buffish white, with blackish brown 
bars, slightly broader on the chin o throat than on the breast. Length, 
297; wing, 184. 
“Hepatic phase.—General color of the upper parts cinnamon, barred 
on the head, mantle, and wings with dusky black; lower back and upper 
tail-coverts with a few black spots next to their shafts; outer tail-coverts 
with partial traces of dark bars; tail partially barred with black and 
marked with white near the shafts, the tips, and some of the edges of 
the feathers, and with a broad subterminal black band; under parts 
buffish white, rather darker on the throat, and all the feathers barred with 
dusky black. Length, 297; culmen, 22; wing, 216; tail, 170; tarsus, 19.” 
(Shelley. ) 
“We secured a single specimen in Siquijor in February, 1891; a second 
specimen was seen but not secured. ‘The specimen in question, a male, 
measures, 311 in length; wing, 201; tail, 161; culmen, 27; tarsus, 22; 
middle toe with claw, 26. Iris brownish yellow, with inner ring of 
dull brown; feet bright yellow; nails yellowish, except that of middle toe, 
which is black; upper mandible black, lower light yellowish.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
335. CUCULUS SATURATUS Hodgson. 
HIMALAYAN CUCKOO. 
Cuculus saturatus Hopeson, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1843), 12, 942; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; Oates and Rei, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 
3, 114; McGrercor and WoRrcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 61. 
Cuculus intermedius SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 252. 
Cuculus canoroides BLASIvS, Ornis (1888), 6 (of reprint) ; Jour. fiir Ornith. 
(1890), 145. 
Mindanao (Platen); Palawan (Platen). Eastern Siberia, Indian Peninsula, 
- Andaman Islands, Malay Archipelago, Burmese provinces, northeastern Australia, 
Japan, China, New Guinea, New Britain. 
“Adult male.—Very similar to O. canorus, but smaller, with the bill 
shorter and stouter. The plumage differs in the upper parts being of a 
deeper and more blue-gray, the breast and under tail-coverts more washed 
with buff, and the bars on the body black, broader and more sharply 
defined than in (@. canorus. ‘Bill, above blackish, below greenish; gape 
and mouth inside deep orange; eyelids bright yellow; iris stone-color; 
legs dull yellow; claws pale. (Cripps.) Length, 325; culmen, 23; 
wing, 188; tail, 160; tarsus, 18. 
“Adult female.—Differs only in plumage from the male in having the 
base of the throat shaded with buffish rufous, as is the case in C. canorus. 
Length, 292; culmen, 18; wing, 188; tail, 152; tarsus, 18. 
“Nestling.—General plumage above blackish brown, with narrow ter- 
minal white margins to the feathers, which margins are broadest on the 
wings and tail; the white nuchal patch so characteristic of C. canorus is 
