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ends ; general color of the under parts huffish white, with blackish brown 

 bars, slightly broader on the chin and 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 

 huffish 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 



335. CUCULUS SATURATUS Hodgson. 

 HIMALAYAN CUCKOO. 



Cuculus saturatus HODGSON, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1843), 12, 942; SHABPE, 

 Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 

 3, 114; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 61. 



Cuculm intermedius SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 252. 



Cuculus canoroides BLASIUS, Ornis (1888), 6 (of reprint) ; Jour, fttr 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 C. 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 C. 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 huffish rufous, as is the case in C. canorn*. 

 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 



