188 GREEN-BANDED CUCKOO. 



white markings we shall presently describe), toge- 

 ther with the wings and tail, is of a rich glossy me- 

 tallic-green of various tints ; of these, golden yellow, 

 passing into reddish copper, is the most prevalent, 

 but very many of the feathers have a strong tinge of 

 blue round their margins, and sometimes there, is a 

 solitary spot or two of blue ; there is no regularity, 

 however, in these tints, which gives consequently 

 the whole a patchy appearance. Before the eye is 

 a white stripe, another is behind it, and a third, 

 placed in front, reaches half down the crown ; the 

 ears are green, the maxillary stripe is also green 

 but detached. The lesser quills and the four outer- 

 most primaries have three white spots on their ex- 

 ternal margins, and some of the wing- covers are 

 banded with white ; the under plumage is pure white ; 

 the sides of the body, the thighs, the under tail-covers, 

 and the inner wing-covers, being all distinctly banded 

 with brownish-green, more or less vivid, on the 

 under tail-covers, and black on the inner wing- 

 covers. The lateral tail-feathers are more or less 

 spotted with white, but the outermost greenish-black 

 with four pair of transverse white spots, and a white 

 tip ; the next is the same, but the spots are round, 

 much smaller, and do not unite ; bill and feet brown. 

 Total length, 7| inches ; bill, from the gape, T 9 S ; 

 wings, 4^ ; tail beyond, 1^ ; ditto from the base, 

 3J; tarsus, T V 



