1873 Of THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 591 



9. CUCULUS CUPREUS. 



LeOoueou vert-dorSet Mow, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois.vi. p. 3850779) 

 pl.^7 (c.T78of P ^ B ° nne Es ^ rance > Mo » tb PI- Enl. vi.' 



Gilded Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2 p 527 (1782) 



Cuculus cupreus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 40 (1783) • Grav Gen 

 B. ,.. p 403 (1847); Schl Mus. P. vjcuculi, p 31 0864) 



Cuculus auratus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 421 788 <-v T nth \ n 

 et Vieill. Enc Meth p. 1337 ( 1823 P ) "ii^^^J^ 



r '> 4 (' 845 - 56 >' Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 43 (1858? 



Le Loucou Didric Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v.p.46,pls. 210, 21 1 (1806) 



Lampromorpha chalcopepla, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831 p 92 



Afr*i TlH7 7E& " T Vn 6 ' £' 1S2 0«»)i S^ins.' B. W. 



ftSJsn nsfi-^ ( p 7) : tT 1 - IblS ' 1862 ' P' 337 5 L *yard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 2o0 (186/); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 163. 



Cuculus chalcopeplus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847) 



w $Tw <%?%*? P ' Con ^- Sfc 105 (1850) ; flartl - 0r »- 



1865 » 4 A ^r eJ, n II,1S ' 18 ° 9, P" 247 ' Mont - P - Z- S. 



868' n' 4fi? 5 S^^ T J u 0r "-/o 1Sb - '" P - 143 ( 1867 > ' GurDe J> IWs, 

 1808, p. 467; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 58. 



gAryweoccy* cwj,^*, Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 26- Finsch 



£* 13 ris7i^ ); d P rp 7 e '« p -i:, s - 1870 ' p- 145; id - Cat - Afr/B. 



p' 776 H87H qflT p £' P ' 6 ° 5 ; ^K 1 ' ° rn - N " °- Afr - 



iJ^T&LSS^A^. p - 163 (1872); Gurne - v cd - 



Lamprococcyx cupreus, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Th.iv. p 1 1 ( 1 S62) 

 Lamprococcyx chrysochlorus, -iid. ut supra l ; " 



Lamprococcyx chry sites, Heine, J. f. O. 1863, p. 350 

 Lhalcites cupreus, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 327. 

 Jounff-— Head uniform cinnamon-rufous, the sides of the neck 

 scantily marked with metallic green, with a broad streak of white 

 under the eye; npper surface of body dull metallic green with a 

 slight coppery appearance on the interscapular regioiT, with h road 

 cross bars of pale cinnamon; quills deep ciLamon, barred with du 

 metallic green, the subterminal spot very lar-e • tail also nWn 7 

 namon with metallic green cross Ls, tL out™ tathe^wTh 

 four rounded spots of white on the outer web and two on he Lne, 

 one being terminal, the next feather with indications of white ZoU 

 on the two ap.eal bars of the inner web ; under surface of body du 

 white, he throat washed with rufous and spotted with dull metallic 

 green, these spots becoming fewer and smaller on the be 

 taking the form of bars on the sides of body and under tai -coverts • 

 bill orange-brown. ""wrenii, 



T i? e i eSC SP ti0n . 0f the y° un S is taken from a specimen given to 

 me by Mr. Monteiro, who obtained it in Angola. Governor Uss her 

 whenmFantee, likewise obtained a series of young bird? fro J , wl ich 

 it would appear that the next stage is gained parti by a ml J and 

 partly by a change of feather, in* this lise :- P fhe mScgr en of 



