Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 305 



Coucou tacheté de Mindanao. FI. Enl. 277- 

 Mindanao Cuckoo. Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. j). 283. no. 27. 



These birds, which now generally are considered the sexes of 

 one species, appear to be but accidental visitors in the colony. 

 At least Mr. Caley informs us that he never met with more than 

 two individuals of the male and one of the female. The male 

 specimen in the Society's collection seems to be a young bird 

 changing to the adult plumage. It has several pale ferruginous 

 feathers on the lower parts of the body, and it has a single fer- 

 ruginous feather striated with black among the secondary quill- 

 feathers of the right wing, which forms a striking contrast with 

 the deep black of the rest. The corresponding feather on the 

 left wing was lost, as INIr. Caley tells us, by the shot striking 

 the wing. This bird had berries of Cassytha in its stomach. 

 The native name of the male is Cozehat' ; of the female, Bel^ 

 linging. 



2. Flindersii. Lath. MSS. End. supra brunnescenti-fusco 

 nitescens ferrugineo-luteo variegatus, capita ferrugineo-luteo, 

 sincipite strigàque pone subtusque oculos nigro-nitescentibus ; 

 subtus ferrugineo-luteus, fasciis gracilibus fuscis undulatus. 



Caput ferrugineo-luteura ; sincipite, striga postoculari ad sca- 

 pulares descendente, strigAque suboculari gulam utrinque 

 marginante nigro-nitescentibus. Dorsum, scapula7-esque ni- 

 tidè brunnescenti-fuscee, ferrugineo-luteo parce punctata 

 fasciatœque. Tectrices fasciis latis ferrugineo-luteis notatce. 

 Remiges utrinque ferrugineo-luteo fasciativ, fasciis internis 

 apice albidis. Bectrices lunulis ferrugineo-luteis fasciatae. 

 Quia, pectus, abdomen, femorum tectrices, iiropygiumque 

 ferrugineo-luteœ, fasciis gracilibus parce undulataî. Bos- 

 trum, pedesqne fusci, illo apice pallido. Longitudo corpo- 



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