424 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE EUWENZOE1 EXPEDITION. 



specimens of that species catalogued as follows : — " d', e'. Imm. sk. Gold Coast 

 (Aubinn). Shelley Coll." 



C. mechowi is easily recognised by its much longer tail, which in the present 

 examples measures $ 7 - 6 inches, d imm. 7'4, as compared with about 6 inches in 

 < '. solitarius. 



Cuculus solitarius Stephen. 



( 'uculus solitarius Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 87 (1902) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 527 [Ruwenzori ; 

 Toro] ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 435 [Cameroon] ; Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 312 [N.W. of 

 Lake Tanganyika]. 



a-f. 6 ? et $ imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 7000-8000 ft., 7th-23rd Jan. 



[Nos. 2078, 2091, 2109. G. L. ; 308?,, 3099, 3100. R. B. IF.] 



g. ? . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 29th April. [No. 254. It. E. D.] 



h,i, c?. „ „ „ 9th & 14th May. [Nos. 1532, 1558. D. C] 



his dark brown ; bill black, base of the lower mandible yellow ; feet yellow. 



An apparently adult male (No. 1558), killed on the 14th of May, is in curious 

 plumage. The throat is entirely grey, while the bright chestnut band which usually 

 occupies the fore-neck and chest is merely indicated by a few rufous and buff feathers. 

 A second adult male (No. 1532), killed at the same place on the 9th of May, is in 

 perfectly normal plumage. 



The female usually has the band across the fore-neck much paler chestnut and 

 heavily barred with black ; but in one female (No. 3083) the chestnut is quite as bright 

 as in the male, and the black bars are less conspicuous. 



Younger birds have the basal part of the outer web of the primaries barred with 

 buff, and the innermost secondaries and greater wing-coverts narrowly margined at the 

 tip with white. 



[During January and February the forest-zone on Ruwenzori resounded with the 

 rotes of the Solitary Cuckoo ; but in March and April the birds had either nearly all 

 gone or had become silent. The call is made up of three notes, which, according to 

 Mr. Bates, have been variously expressed " Piet-mijn-vrow " or " Za-so-foe," meaning 

 "Who brings the news'?" It was also heard in the Congo Forest and at the south 

 end of Ruwenzori, as well as in the Mpanga Forest. On the mountains this species 

 never ascended above an altitude of 8500 ft. — B. B. IF.] 



ClIKYSOCOUCYX CUPKEUS (Bodd.). 



( 'hrysacoccyx cupreus Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 94 (1902) ; Stark & Sclatcr, B. S. Afr. iii. p. 189 

 (1903) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 438 [Cameroon]. 



. . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 28th April. [No. 1452. I). C] 



