374 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



like the breast; under surface of the quills dark brown, with a large 

 basal portion of their inner webs rufous-buff, more or less barred with 

 dark brown. Bill black, with base of lower mandible gray ; legs greenish 

 gray. Length, 234; culmen, 19; wing, 122; tail, 122; tarsus, 18. 



"Immature. Above rufous; the upper back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts barred with olive-shaded black; a band of this color runs down 

 the centers of some of the tail-feathers, and most of these feathers have 

 bold black spots near their ends and occasionally white tips; sides of 

 the head and sides of the neck rufous like the crown; remainder of the 

 under parts white, with the blackish bars on the throat and chest broader 

 than in the adult." (Shelley.) 



"An adult male from the Calamianes Islands measures, 216 in length ; 

 wing, 104; tail, 98; culmen, 24; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 21. 

 Iris dark brown; legs and feet drab; upper mandible black, lower dark 

 gray. Our Tablas specimens are immature, but there seems little room 

 for doubt as to their identity." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus CACOMANTIS S. Muller, 1843. 



Size small ; wing short and pointed ; third primary longest ; primaries 

 exceeding secondaries by one-third of length of wing; tail strongly grad- 

 uated, longer than wing. In this genus the young have a barred plu- 

 mage which disappears in the adult ; Penthoceryx has no change of pattern 

 but retains the barred livery in the adult state. 



337. CACOMANTIS MERULINU8 (Scopoli). 

 RUFOUS-BELLIED CUCKOO. 



Cuculus merulinus SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 89. 



Cacomantis merulinus SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 268; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 159; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 62. 



Ma-sa-kit', Manila. 



Balabac (Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao 

 (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Caluya 

 (Porter) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor); Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Gevers, 

 Everett, Her lot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Goodfelloic) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros (Steere Exp., 

 Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Sonnerat, Steere, Steere Exp.) ; 

 Samar (Steere Exp.) ; Semirara (Porter) ; Sibay (Porter) ; Siquijor (Celestino) ; 

 Sulu (Platen, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi 



