CUCULIDJ3 CHRYSOCOCCYX 185 



ft 1 . Below huffy- white, barred with 



narrow lines of brown C. klaa si $? , p. 186. 



b. Head rufous, throat streaked, breast 

 and abdomen barred with dusky- 



green C. cupreiixjtir., p. 189. 



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464. Chrysococcyx smaragdineus. Emerald Cuckoo. 



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Cuculus cupreus (nee Bodd.}, Vie ill. Gal. Ozs. i, p. 33, pi. xlii. (1825) ; 

 Grill, K. Vet. Akad. Handl StocJch. ii, no. 10, p. 42 (1858) 

 [Knysna] . 



Chalcites smaragdineus, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii, p. 191 (1837) ; La yard. 

 B. 8. Afr. p. 251 (1867). 



Chrysococcyx smaragdineus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246 [Natal] ; Butler ^ 

 Feilden, and Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 207 [Newcastle] ; Shelley, Cat. 

 B. M. xix, p. 280 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 124 (1896); Woodirard 

 Bros, and Sliarpc, Ibis, 1897, pp. 410, 499 [Zululand] ; Woodward 

 Bros. Natal B. p. 117 (1898) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 109 [Kafue 

 river] ; Marxhall. ibid. p. 252 [Mashonaland] ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, 

 p. 26. 



Cuculus smaragdineus, Sliarpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 588; id. ed. Layard'x 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 151, 809 (1875-84) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83 [Pine- 

 town, Durban] . 



Metallococcyx smaragdineus, Rciclienow, Ornith. Monatsb. iv, p. 54 

 (1896). 



" Bantwanyana " of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult male. Above, throughout a bright metallic 

 emerald-green, throat and chest the same ; four central tail-feathers 

 unspotted, three lateral pairs tipped with white, and the outer pair 

 barred as well ; lower breast, abdomen, and thighs canary-yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts white, barred with emerald-green ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner lining of the quills white. 



Iris dark brown ; bill blackish at base, olive-green at the tip ; 

 legs and feet bluish-slate. 



Length in the flesh 8-12; in skin 8-5; wing 4-4; tail 3-80; 

 tarsus 0-70 ; culmen 0-60. 



The female is very different from the male ; head ashy-black ; 

 back, mantle and wings emerald-green, the feathers regularly barred 

 with rufous ; wing- quills and central tail-feathers dusky, with brown 

 metallic reflections, the former barred on both webs with' rufous ; 

 third pair of tail-feathers white at the tip and along the outer web, 

 the inner web being barred with chestnut and metallic dusky-black, 

 the outer two pairs are white with a subterminal black bar ; lower 

 surface white with narrow transverse bars of green ; the bars 



