18/3.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. GO" 



Confined to Africa, but evidently having direct affinity with 



Fig. 15. 



Head of Ceuthmochares 



aeneus. 



Rhopodytes and its allies. It differs from all, however, in its bare 

 horny face and lores, and in the downward direction of its nostrils. 



Genus 12. Carpococcyx. 



Calobates, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 538 (1832, nee Type. 



Kaup) C. radiatus. 



Carpococcyx, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 56 (1840) . . C. radiatus. 



Not far removed from Sericosomus, from which it is chiefly distin- 

 guished by its long and somewhat differently shaped bill. The 

 nostril is rather more exposed than in the other; but the re- 

 semblance is otherwise very close. 



Fig. 16. 



Head of Carpococcyx radiatus. 



Mr. Wallace tells me that when alive this bird closely mimics a 

 Pheasant in appearance and gait. Indeed the Cuckoos, being some 

 of the weakest of birds, mimic stronger families. Every one is ac- 

 quainted with the general resemblance of our common Cuckoo to a 

 Hawk, a resemblance so perfect that even small birds appear not to 

 appreciate the distinction, and pursue them indiscriminately. 

 Again the resemblance of Surniculus dicruroides to a Bicrurus is 



