CUCULID/E 



CUCULUS 



175 



in Anderason's B-. Damaraland, p. 228 (1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 585; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 366 [Bamangwato] ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 148, 809 (1875, 84) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 

 245 [Umfuli river]; i<l. Cat. B. M. xix, p. 244 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, 

 p. 123 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 115 (1899) ; Marshall, 

 Uiift, 1900, p. 252 [Salisbury]. 



FIG. 59. Cuculus gularis. x f^. 



Description. Adult male. General colour above, slaty-grey, wing- 

 quills slightly darker with white bars on the inner webs ; outer tail- 

 feathers with about six complete white bars on the inner web, the 

 bars diminish towards the central pair of feathers which are spotted 

 with white along the shaft; throat, sides of the. face, neck and 

 upper breast pale grey, rest of the under surface and under wing- 

 coverts white with narrow black transverse bars. 



Iris yellowish -brown ; bill, including the portion surrounding the 



FIG. 60. Outer tail feather of Cuculus gularis (from Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1873). 



nostrils, yellow, the terminal half of the upper and third of the lower 

 mandible brown ; legs and feet yellow. 



Length about 12-75 ; wing 8'4 ; tail 6-3 ; culmen 0-85 ; tarsus 0-8. 

 The female apparently in some cases differs from the male in having 

 the lower throat and breast suffused with rufous-buff. 



