hij Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 733 



Only the male calls, the female being very retiring iu habits 

 and difficult to secure. Tlie colours of this Cuckoo so per- 

 fectly match the green oC the trees that I have found not a 

 little difficulty in distinguishing it when sitting still, although 

 I have actually located the tree in whieli the bird is by its 

 call. Each male appears to frequent the same spot day after 

 day and keeps to the part of the forest it has reserved for 

 itself, and never have I heard two calling from the same spot. 

 The female from Zululand was shot at the nest of a Sunbiid 

 which was still in course of construction and which she was 

 evidently watching. 



The soft parts are: — ^. Irides brown; eyelid greenish 

 blue ; bill greenish yellow, bluish at gape ; legs and toes blue- 

 slate-coloured, nails black. 



$. Irides brown; eyelid blue; base of bill blue, tip 

 black; legs and toes slate-coloured.] 



465. CURYSOCOCCYX KLAASI. 



CC. Durban Rd., Sept. 16 (1) ; Z. Umfolosi Station, 

 July 15 (1); P. Coguno, Aug. 24 (1). 



Wiien I prepared the ' Biids of South Africa ' I believed 

 that this Cuckoo did not winter in South Africa, but it has 

 since been taken by Taylor at Baiberton in June (Bull. 

 B. O. C. xvi. p. 7) and by Ivy in Albany and Davies in Pondo- 

 land in the same mouth, so that it is evidently a resident or 

 partial resident in South Africa throughout the year. 



[I have seen Klaas's Cuckoo in the Cape Peninsula, near 

 Umfolosi, and at Coguno. Except at the Cape, where a pair 

 were seen, I have only noted it singly. It frequents the out- 

 skirts of patches of bush, and I have found it very shy and 

 retiring in habits. The cry is a single note, generally uttered 

 on the wing. 



The soft parts are : — Irides dark brown ; bill pale green ; 

 legs and toes very pale green.] 



460. ClIRYSOCOCCYX CUPttEUS. 



Tv. AVoodbush, Jan. 3 (1) ; Pietersburg, Mch. 2 & 4 (2). 



[" Didiic " of the Colonists. 



I have observed the Golden Cuckoo in the Nortlicrn 



