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Madagascar, and southern Asia as far as the Papuan Islands and 

 Australia. 



Six species, all residents, are found in South Africa. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Under parts buff or white, not black. 



a 1 . Larger, wing 7'8 to 8'9 ; gloss on the 

 crown with a lilac shade ; tail bronzy - 

 black with little green gloss ............... C. cupreicauda, p. 207. 



b l . Smaller, crown not glossed with lilac-blue. 

 a-. No white tips to the tail-feathers ; 

 adults with no bars on the upper 

 tail-coverts or tail-feathers. 



a 3 . No white feathers in front of the eye. C. senegalensis, p. 206. 

 6 3 . A few white feathers in front of the 



eye ....................................... C. flecU, p. 207. 



6 3 . Tail with white tips. 



a 3 . Crown blackish, nape with some- 

 times a few white shaft stripes, 

 with or without a few white 

 feathers in front of the eye ......... C. burchelli, p. 203. 



fe 3 . Crown brown, nape with numerous 

 white shaft lines, and marked buff 

 eyebrows... .............................. C. superciliosus, p. 208. 



B. Under parts black throughout .................. C. nigrorufus, p. 209. 



472. Centropus burchelli. Burchell's Coucal 



Le Coucal houhou, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v, p. 72, pi. 219 (1806). 

 Centropus burchelli, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 321 (1838) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 246 (1867) ; 'Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 408 (1893) ; 



[Botletli river] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. 114 [Beira dist.] ; Marshall, 



Ibis, 1900, p. 252 [Mashonaland]. 

 Centropus senegalensis (nee Linn.}, Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 261 [Limpopo] ; 



Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 617 (in part) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 



Afr. pp. 162, 810 (1875-84) ; Oates, Matabeleland, p. 305 (1881) ; 



Holub (6 Pelzeln, Om. Siid-Afr. p. 163 (1882) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1884, 



p. 225 [Potchefstroom] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 120 (1899). 

 Centropus natalensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 246 ; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887 



p. 52 [Zoutspansberg] ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 362 (1891) ; id. B. 



Afr. i, p. 123 (1896) ; Rendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 168 [de Kaap] ; W. L. 



Sclater, Ibis, 1899, p. 286 [Inhambane] ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 



106 [Tete] ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 28, fig. 3 [Albany]. 



" Vlei Lourie," of the Colonists ; " Ufukwe " of Zulus (Woodward), 

 whence "Fouqua" of Natal Colonists. 



