18/3.] 



OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 



599 



i. 



2. 



3. 



4. 



5. 



6. 



7. 



8. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 



Natal. Ayres 



Transvaal. Ayres 



Tetto. Livingstone 



Damara Land. Andersson 



Long. tot. 



Biballa. Anchieta 



S. 



Elands' Post. Atmore 

 Waliko. Blanford 



Simla. Thompson 



Lahore. Marshall 



Nepal. Hodgson 



Pegu. Blanford . 



11-5 



123 



11-7 



120 



13-6 



140 



14-0 



11-8 



12-7 



10-8 



12-2 



12-4 



12-6 



12-9 



11-4 



12-4 



Ala?. 



5-90 



6-15 



5-65 



6-35 



6-4 



60 



6-6 



6-05 



5-75 



5-75 



6-2 



60 



5-8 



6-0 



5-85 



59 



Caud. 



71 

 7-4 

 6-9 

 7-8 

 8-0 

 7'6 

 7-8 

 73 

 73 

 6-8 

 73 

 74 

 73 

 72 

 70 

 7-2 



Many ornithologists have followed Levaillant in considering this 

 and Loccystes serratus to be sexes of one and the same bird Inde 

 pendently of Mr. Layard's testimony that they are not equally 

 common in the parts of South Africa they inhabit, the best answer 

 that can be given to this supposition is that in Abyssinia and in 

 India the Black-crested Cuckoo never occurs at all. 



4. COCCYSTUS SERRATUS. 



Crested Black Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 519 (1 782) 



Cuculus serratus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, fasc. i. pi. 3 (1786) • 

 bnndev. Crit. Sparrm. p. 4 (18^8). v '' 



Cuculus ater, Gm. S. N. i. p. 415 (1/88, ex Lath ) 

 n*n£°T U , Edo H .( m ^)> L evaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 39, pi. 207 

 (1806); Sundev. Cm. omLevaill. p. 4/(1858). 



Cuculus edolius <$ , Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 425 (1S171- Ip« 

 Traite', p. 148(1831). V <.*=»/), i-ess. 



Oxyloplms edolius, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 322 (1837) ; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 2o2 (186/). 



Oxylophus serratus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 464 (184/); Blyth, Cat. 

 B.Mus. As Soc. B.p 74 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 102 (1850)- 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p 997 { } '. 



Coccystes serratus, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 47 (186?)- 



Sm Ii P -" B -n C r/l' P n 45 (l864) ; G,a ^ Hand-h B.ii. p. 220 

 (18/0); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 13 (1871). 



Adult male. Above glossy greenish black, with a long crest of the 

 same colour; under surface of body also greenish black! but a little 



i U e!n r i S! n t. I i L qUllS b, '° Wnish ' the se ™"^™ glossed with 

 green like the back, the primaries white at the base of both webs 



forming externally a very large alar speculum; tail greenish above,' 

 inclining to purplish brown underneath; bill black; tarsi slate- 

 coloured; ins nearly black Total length 125 inches, culmen 10, 

 wmg 615, tail 76, tarsus 105. 



