CUCULID^ CENTKOPUS 207 



Description. Adidt. Upper half of head, back of neck, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail brownish-black strongly glossed with 

 green ; tail-feathers without white tips ; wing bright chestnut ; 

 beneath white tinged with buff. 



Iris red ; bill and legs black. 



Length 16-5 ; wing 66 ; tail 8-5 ; culmen 1-2 ; tarsus 1-6. 



The young bird differs in having blackish bars on the mantle 

 and wings, and generally traces of buff bars on the upper tail- 

 coverts and tail. 



Distribution. Throughout almost the whole of tropical Africa ; 

 within our limits has been once obtained at Bamangwato in 

 Bechuanaland by Buckley. 



474. Centropus flecki. Fleck's Coucal. 



Centropus flecki, Reiclienow, Ornith. Monatsb. i, p. 84 (1893) ; Fleck, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 397, pi. iv. 



Description. Adult. Kesembling C. senegalensis in every respect 

 but with a few white feathers in front of the eye. 



A young bird has the upper half of head and back of the neck 

 dull brown ; bill yellowish with culmen dark brown ; wings, upper 

 tail-coverts and tail barred. 



Length 16-5 ; wing 6-7 ; tail 8-5. 



Distribution. This bird was obtained at Nocana on the 

 Okavango, not far from Lake Ngami, by Dr. Edward Fleck. 



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 475. Centropus cupreicauda. Bronzy-tailed Coucal. 



Centropus cupreicaudus, Reiclienoiv, Ornith. Monatsb. iv, p. 53 (1896). 

 Centropus monachus, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 359 (1891) (in part 

 specs, p. to w.) 



Description. Larger than C. senegalensis ; crown of the head 

 glossed with blue with a lilac shade; tail bronzy-black with very 

 little green gloss. 



Wing 7-8 to 8-9 ; tail 8-0 to 10-0. 



Distribution. The type of this species was obtained in Damara- 

 land whence the bird ranges to Benguela the Upper Zambesi valley 

 and Lake Ngami. 



