CULID2E COCCYSTES 193 



467. Coccystes! glandarius. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



Cuculus glandarius, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 169 (1766). 



Oxylophus glandarius, P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 22 [Cathcartj; 



'Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1867). 

 Coccystes glandarius, Gurney in Andersson's B. Damar aland, p. 225 



(1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 593 ; Dresser, B. Eur. v, p. 219, pi. 



300 (1874) : Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 157, 810 (1875-84) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 298 [Potchefstroom] ; Butler, Feilden, and Eeid, 



Zool. 1882, p. 207 [Blaauwkrantz river] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 291 ; 

 ' Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 329 [Kroonstad] ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 



212 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 123 (1896) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1896, p. 242 



[Salisbury] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 113 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 



1900, p. 251 ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 22 [Albany div.]. 



Desertion. Adult male. Crown, which is crested, grey with 

 black shaft lines to the feathers, rest of the upper surface including 

 the wings and tail slaty-brown, the scapulars, secondaries, wing- 



FIG. 64. Coccystes glandarius. x -}. 



coverts and tail-quills tipped with white, the latter more strongly 

 towards the outermost ; ear-coverts and feathers round the eye 

 grey, like the crown ; throat and upper breast pale ochreous- 

 yellow, this colour extending on to the sides of the neck so as to 

 form a half collar, all the rest of the lower surface white ; under 

 wing-coverts tinged with ochreous. 



Iris brownish-hazel ; bill brown, yellow at base of lower 

 mandible ; legs and feet bluish-brown. 



Length about 14-75; wing 7'75; tail 8-25; culmen 1-0 ; tarsus 

 1-25. 



The female is eventually like the male but appears to take 

 longer to assume the adult plumage. The young bird has a com- 

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