370 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus CUCULUS Linnaeus, 1758. 



Secondaries about half the length 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 1 . Tail with a subterminal black band; crown and throat grayish contrasting 



with mantle and back v microptems (p. 370) 



a 2 . Tail without a subterminal black band; crown and throat gray like the back. 



6 1 . Larger; wing, 200 to 230 mm.; bars on breast more dusky; edge of wing 



white and brown ... canorus (p. 371) 



6 2 . Smaller; wing, less than 200 mm.; bars on breast jet-black, broader and more 



complete; edge of wing white saturatus (p. 372) 



333. CUCULUS MICROPTERU8 Gould. 



SHORT-WINGED CUCKOO. 



Cm- ii I UN micropterus GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1837), 137; SHELLEY, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 241; GRANT, Ibis (189C), 500; SHABPE, 

 Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 01. 



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 ; culinen, 25 ; wing, 20 ; tail, 160 ; tarsus, 20. 



"Immature. 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.) 



