436 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
words often serve as the name of the bird, though many 
people know it as the “ Little Hawk.” The call of 
« Za-so-foé ”? may be heard at almost any hour of the day, 
especially if it be cloudy; but it is most often noticed at 
evening and at night. When lying awake, I have heard 
it at all hours. 
The bird has-another call in much the same tone, but 
rising instead of descending in pitch. This same bird 
has at last been identified as the source of still another 
peculiar bird-call that long puzzled me—a startling loud 
and rapidly-repeated cry sounding like “ Hurry! Hurry! 
HURRY!” first increasing in loudness and then dying 
away. This bird, like its kindred celebrated in poetry, 
is hard to locate by its cry. It was heard in the Zima 
Country.—G. L. B.] 
123. CucULUS GABONENSIS. 
Cuculus gabonensis Lafr.; Sharpe, Hand-l. B. 11. p. 159 
(1900); Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 11. p. 88 (1902). 
No. 951. Gad. Efulen, July 25, 1905. 
No. 1189. @juv. 150 miles from the coast, Nov. 6, 
1905. 
Nos. 1446, 1451. dad. River Ja, Feb. 21, 1906. 
No. 1481. Gad. River Ja, March 1, 1906. 
No. 1887. ¢ ad. 3 Aug. 4, 1906. 
No. 1901. @ imm. ts Aug. 9, 1906. 
No. 2108. 2 imm. Bitye, River Ja, Nov. 30, 1906. 
The young bird (No. 1139) has whitish edgings to the 
feathers of the upper surface and of the throat, the latter 
being black with a few chestnut feathers. The under tail- 
coverts have a few black cross-bars; but these are not so 
plentiful as in C. jacksoni, which also has the under wing- 
coverts narrowly but plentifully barred with black, as well 
as the axillaries. 
124, Cercococcyx MECHOWI. 
Cercococcyx mechowi Cab.; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 11. 
p- 84 (1902). 
Nos. 1882, 1885. &¢imm. River Ja, Feb. 1, 1906. 
