848 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvm. 



The change in the generic name of this species is due to Dr. L. 

 Stejneger/' who has recently pointed out the untenability of Coccystes 

 by reason of the prior C J am a tor. 



CUCULUS CLAMOSUS Latham. 



Ciicitlits ddniDXiis Latham, lad. Orii., Suppl., LSDl, p. xxx (Cape of Good Hope). 



One ,voung female, with wings and tail not yet fully grown, from 

 Mount Kilimanjaro (5,000 feet), November 19, 1889. This bird difiers 

 in appearance somewhat from the published accounts of young Cxcidus 

 elaiKo.sns^ and may be described as follows: 



General color above black, inclining to dark brown on the wings, 

 the feathers slightly but distinctly margined with whitish, those of the 

 wings with tawny ochraceous; chin, throat, fore breast, with sides of 

 head and neck ])lack, the feathers narrowly edged with whitish; 

 feathers of the fore breast and sides of neck with more or less con- 

 cealed bars of white; lower breast and abdomen butt' with black bars, 

 the latter becoming narrower on thighs and lower tail-coverts; under 

 wing-coverts buff, mottled and l)arred with ))lackish; primaries mot- 

 tled on inner webs with dull tawny white or ochraceous; rectrices 

 black with a central white shaft spot toward the end of each feather, 

 and with butty white terminal markings. " Feet straw yellow." 



CHRYSOCOCCYX KLAAS (Stephens). 



Cnrnlus klaas Stephens, Sliaw's (ten. Zoul., IX, 1S15, p. 128 (Senegal). 



A single adult male, from Taveta, August 17, 1888. It is much 

 smaller, and strikingly more bronzy green on the upper surface than 

 an adult of the same sex from Cape Colony. 



CENTROPUS SUPERCILIOSUS Hemprich and Ehrenberg. 



Cenlropus superc'diosus Hemprkh and Ehrenberc;, Symb. Phys., 1828, fol. r 

 (Arabia and Ethiopia [tyjje locality, sonthern Arabia]). 



Three specimens, from Taveta and Mount Kilimanjaro (5,000 feet). 

 "Iris of male red, of female dark carmine. Length of female, 16f 

 inches [426 mm.]; extent, 20 inches [508 nun. J.'' 



The two males are much smaller than the female, and have, more- 

 over, dusky bars on the distal portion of all the wing-quills, an appar- 

 ent indication of recent youth, though in all other respects they are 

 precisely like the adult. 



«Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, 1902, p. 37. 



