Distribution of the Crested Cuckoos. 399 



tried hard in several places where I had seen many in former 

 years. Tlie thick willow and '^sinjit^' jungles in the beds 

 of streams appear to be its favourite resorts. In the summer 

 of 186J< there were dozens breeding about the Kara-agatch 

 River, twenty miles west of Sliiraz -Jf ^ * * I first saw them 

 early in May. The next and the following year, though I 

 was frequently in the same spot, I saw no Cuckoos, but in 

 1867 I remarked them again about the Kara-agatch, and also 

 in the jungly bed of the Polvar, further north ; after which I 

 saw none till with Mr. Blanford, when I shot one out of a 

 few willow trees near Sarvistan. (Sir O. St. John, in Blan- 

 ford's 'Eastern Persia/ p. 120.) 



North Africa. — Very common in Morocco ; Tangier, 

 January; Tetuan, March (Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 425, 1869, 

 p. 152). Lake Masharalhaddar (Reid, Ibis, 1885, p. 247). 

 Occurs near Tangier on passage, always in pairs, but not 

 in any great numbers (Favier; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 69). Found 

 breeding in Algeria (Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 316). Inhabits 

 all the wooded localities of Algeria (Loche, Explor. Sci. 

 Algdr. Ois. ii. p. 74) . 



Canary Islands. — Occasionally on migration (Bolle, J. f. 

 O. 1854, p. 461). 



ETHIOPIAN REGION. 



West-African Subregion. — Casamance (Payes), Bissao 

 (Beaudouin ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 265). Senegambia 

 (Mus. Paris; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 188). Common in 

 Senegambia, St. Louis, Sorrez, Thionk, Leybar, Babagaye, 

 Solde, Matam, Podor, Dagana, Cayor, Country of the Ser- 

 r^res, Ghimbering, Cagnout, Albreda, Gandiole, M^bao 

 (Rochebr. Faun. Seneg., Ois. p. 102). Fantee (Hinde ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 12). Cape Coast (Ussher, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 52) . Accra (Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 286) . 

 Loango Coast (Falkenstein ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 16). 



Abyssinian Subregion. — Resident in Egypt and Nubia 

 (Shelley, Birds of Egypt, p. 162). Entire Nile valley south- 

 wards to the Gazelle River and Djur Country ; also Bogos 

 Land, the Quola of Abyssinia, Danakil and Somali coasts, 



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