1873.] OF THK ETHIOPIAN REGION. 595 



Key to the species. 



a. Abdomen whitish. 



a'. Above brown: an ashy-grey crest: wings spotted with 



white • 1. glandarius. 



b'. Above blackish: crest uniform with back: wings un- 

 . spotted. • 



a". Throat white, conspicuously streaked with black 2. cafer. 



h". Throat white, like the breast Z.jacohinus. 



b. Abdomen black 4. serratus. 



1. COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 



Cuculus glandarius, Linn. S. N. i. p. 169 (1766). 



Bee Cuckoo, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v. App. p. 179 (1790). 



Coccyzus glandarius, Riipp. N. W. Vcig. p. 62 (1835) ; id. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 96(1845). 



Cuculus phaiopterus, Riipp. in Mus. Lugd. (teste Schlegel : = 

 juv.). 



Oxylophus glandarius, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 219 ; Haiti. Om. 

 W. Afr. p. 188 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 265 ; Heugl. Peterm. 

 Mitth. 1861, p. 25 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1867). 



Coccystes glandarius, Heugl.Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856) ; id. J. f.O. 

 1862, p. 34 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 44 (1862) ; Finsch 

 & Haiti. Vog. Ostafr. p. 518 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 220 

 (1870) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 485 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 12 (187J ) ; 

 Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 786 (1871); Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 162 

 (1872) ; Gurney, ed. Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 225 (18*72). 



Adult male. Above brown, somewhat inclining to olive-brown, 

 the scapulars slightly, the wing-coverts and inner secondaries more 

 conspicuously tipped with whitish ; quills darker brown above, the 

 inner primaries narrowly edged with whitish at the tips, the inner 

 face of the quills whitish ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 brown like the back, the outermost of the latter white on the outer 

 web, the inner ones tipped with white ; tail brown, broadly tipped 

 with white ; crown of the head and crest bluish grey, with narrow 

 blackish shaft-lines ; sides of the face and hind neck rather darker 

 brown, the ear-coverts washed with grey ; throat and chest yellowish 

 white, the former somewhat tinged with greyish, with indistinct 

 hair-like blackish shaft-lines ; rest of under surface purer white, the 

 flanks shaded with greyish ; under wing-coverts yellowish, the outer 

 ones and the axillaries white, the latter somewhat shaded with ashy ; 

 bill brown, yellowish at base of lower mandible, feet bluish, shaded 

 with brown ; iris pale brown. Total length 15 inches, culmen 1*1, 

 wing 8*15, tail 9, tarsus 1"3, 



Adult female. Generally similar to the male, but having a faint 

 rufous tinge on the inner webs of the primaries. 



Young. Very different from the adult, and looking like another 

 species. Above dark brown, the head and crest black ; the wing- 

 coverts scantily spotted with white ; primaries rufous, the tips 

 dusky brown, tipped with white, the first two primaries also brown 

 on the outer web, the inner secondaries uniform with the back, and 

 tipped with white; the external upper tail-coverts white on the 



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