18/3.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 593 



Cuculus klaasii, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 230 (1817) ; 

 Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Me'th. iii. p. 1333 (1823); Licht. Verz. Doubl. 

 p. 9 (1823); Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 43 (1868). 



Chalcites klasii, Less. Traite, p. 153 (1831). 



Chalcites klassii, Sw. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 189, pi. 21 (1837). 



Chrysococcy.v clasii, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 9fi (1845); Heugl. 

 Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); "id. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 26. 



Cuculus klasii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847) ; Schl. Mns. P. B. 

 Cuculi, p. 30 (1864). 



Chrysococcyx klaasi, Bp. Consp. p. 105 (1850); J. & E. Verr. 

 Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 270; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 265; 

 Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 248 ; Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 327 

 (1867); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 46 (1868); Finsch & Hartl. 

 Vog. Ostafr. p. 520 (1870); Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 314 

 (1870); Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 58; Gurney, ed. Anderss. B. Dam. 

 Ld. p. 229 (1872). 



Chrysococcyx claasii, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 1 90 ( 1857); Gurnev, 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 247 ; Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 265 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. 

 B. p. 13 (1871); Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr, p. 778 (1871). 



Lamprococcyx klaasi, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 12 

 (1862); Heine, J. f. O. 1863, p. 351. 



Lamprococcyx resplendens, Heine, J. f. O. 1863, p. 350. 



Chalcites klaasii, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 250 (1867). 



Adult male.- — Above metallic green, changing with the light to 

 fiery bronze and golden green ; the sides of the face and of the neck 

 as well as the wings coloured like the hack and subject to the same 

 reflexions ; under surface of quills greyish brown, very numerously 

 and distinctly notched on the inner web with white ; four middle 

 tail-feathers golden green, with a slight coppery reflexion, especially 

 towards the tips, the other feathers white, with a spot of golden 

 green near the tip of the outer web, and three or four of the same 

 colour on the inner web ; under surface of body pure white, with a 

 few broad longitudinal streaks of golden green on the upper thigh- 

 feathers, the sides of the upper breast also bright golden-green, like 

 the back ; "bill dusky ; legs pale ; feet brownish olive ; iris brown ; 

 orbit very pale green" (Blanford). Total length 7"0 inches, cul- 

 men 07, wing 4*1, tail 3*2, tarsus 0'55. 



Female. — Above brown, the head uniform ; interscapulary region 

 barred with dull rufous ; rest of the upper surface barred with dull 

 rufous and metallic green, broader and more distinct on the wing- 

 coverts, narrower and less plain on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; quills brown, the secondaries coloured like the back, the 

 primaries notched externally with pale rufous, under surface of quills 

 ashy brown, deeply notched with pale rufous on the inner weh ; tail 

 brown, with a subterminal spot of coppery green on the centre 

 feathers, the next one glossed with copper-colour, and notched ex- 

 ternally with pale rufous, the three outermost white, with a conspi- 

 cuous spot of coppery green near the tip, and more or less remains 

 of pale rufous notches and brown bars on the inner webs ; ear-coverts 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1873, No. XXXVIII. 38 



