18/3.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 581 



Uebers. p. 96 (1845); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); Hartl. 

 Orn. Westafr. p. 266 (1857) ; Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 26; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 45 (1868); Finsch, Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. 

 p. 286 (1870); Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 312 (1870); 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 12 (1871); Gurney, Ibis, 1871, p. 103; 

 Heugl. Orn. N. O. 4.fr. p. 780 (1872) ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 162 

 (1872) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 67 ; Anderss. B. Damara Land, ed. 

 Gurney, p. 227 (1872). 



Coucou vulgaire d Europe, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. pi. 202, 203 

 (1806) ; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 47 (1858). 



Cuculus gularis, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246. 



Coucou du Cap de Bonne Espcrance, Buff. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 390, 

 et Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 353. 



Cuculus capensis, Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 90 (1776); Gm. 

 S. N. i. p. 410 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 208 (1790) ; Steph. 

 Gen. Zool. ix. pt. i. p. 85 (1815) ; Cass. Proc. Phil. Acad. 1864, 

 p. 243. 



Cape-Cuckow, Lath. Geii. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 513 (1782). 



Adult male. Above ashy grey, much darker on the back, where it 

 is glossed slightly with greenish ; the head, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts much paler grey ; wing-coverts dark grey, with scarcely any 

 greenish gloss ; quills brownish, the secondaries slightly glossed with 

 greenish in some lights, the inner web broadly and numerously 

 barred with white, these white bars, however, not occupying more 

 than two thirds of the quill ; tail blackish, tipped with white, the 

 centre feathers showing an indication of a tiny white spot along the 

 shaft, a little plainer on the three outer ones, becoming larger 

 towards the outermost, the four external feathers also minutely 

 spotted with white on the inner web, these also increasing in size 

 towards the outer feather, at the base of which they form irregular 

 bars ; sides of the face, entire throat, and fore neck pale blue-grev ; 

 rest of the under surface of the body white, transversely barred with 

 rather narrow lines of greyish black ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 whiter, indistinctly barred with blackish, the bars on the longer tail- 

 coverts broader, but further apart; under wing- coverts white, shading 

 into greyish on the edge of the wing and lower coverts ; bill horn- 

 black, with a little yellow at the gape and on the base of the lower 

 mandible ; feet yellow, nails brownish ; iris and eyelid yellow. 

 Total length 13 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 88, tail 7'5, tarsus 09. 



Hab. N.E. Africa: Egypt (G. E. Shelley); Bogos Land 

 (Blanford, Jesse, Esler); Lower Nubia, in March (Hartmann) ; 

 New Dongola, in September ; Old Dongola, in April ; N. Senaar, in 

 May {von Heuglin). W. Africa : Fantee (Swanzy, Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Connor's Hill, Cape Coast, November 2nd, 1870 {Ussher) ; St. 

 Thomas (Weiss). S.W. Africa: Otjimbinque, Damara Land, 



to me to be referable to the hepatic phase of 17. canorus, of which I have a 

 Damara specimen in the same plumage; and Levaillant's suggestion that it is 

 a young C. solitarius will not stand the comparison of specimens. I therefore 

 add its synonymy to C. canorus. 



