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' Genus DASYLOPHUS Swainson, 1837. 



Nostril hidden by stiff antrorse feathers; eye surrounded by a large 

 area of bare skin; on each side of crown, from lores to nape, a line of 

 harsh, decomposed, and lengthened feathers; wing short; tail long and 

 graduated. 



352. DASYLOPHUS SUPERCILIO3U8 (Cuvier). 



ROUGH-CRESTED CUCKOO. 



Phcenicophaus supcrciliosus CUVIEB, Diet. Hist. Nat. (1826), 10, 55. 



Dasylophus superciliosus SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 403; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 172; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 64. 



Ba-sac ba-yu-cu, Manila. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Mollendorff, Steere, Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.). 



"Adult male. General plumage above glossy blackish green, with a 

 partial blue shade; a very distinct eyebrow of bright crimson elongated 

 tufts of hair-like feathers extending from the nostrils to behind the bare 

 orbital patch, which latter is bright orange; the base of many of the red 

 tufts white and forming a narrow partial eyebrow next to the bare skin ; 

 tail with broad white ends to the feathers; under parts dusky olive, in- 

 clining to black toward the chin, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the 

 Jatter partially glossed with green. 'Iris pure chrome-yellow; orbital skin 

 and base of bill fiery orange ; bill pale green ; legs greenish chrome ; claws 

 dark gray.' (Everett.} Length, 394; culmen, 38; wing, 157; tail, 241 ; 

 tarsus, 38. 



"Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Length, 389 ; cul- 

 men, 38 ; wing, 155 ; tail, 231 ; tarsus, 37." (Shelley.) 



A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures : Wing, 160 ; tail, 240 ; 

 culmen from base, 36 ; bill from nostril, 27 ; tarsus, 35 ; middle toe with 

 claw, 33. 



Genus LEPIDOGRAMMUS Reichenbach, 1849. 



Nostrils partly hidden ; a large, oblong, bare space surrounding the eye ; 

 feathers of entire top of head and of chin and throat with hard, glossy 

 scale-like tips; wings short and rounded; tail long and graduated. . .,.., %; ., 



353. LEPIDOGRAMMUS CUMINGI (Fraser). 

 SCALE-FEATHERED CUCKOO. 



Phocnicophaus cumingi ERASER, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1839), 112. 



Lepidogrammus cumingi SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 404; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 172; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 64. 



Al-bi-16-ri-o, Manila. 



Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregor, Celestino) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.). 



