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Belongs to the same section as C. alhonotatus, C. nigripennis, C. macrurus, and C. 

 schlegelii. It agrees well with the single Celebean example above referred to. The 

 two type specimens in the British Museum are not fully adult. Outer pair of rectrices 

 with only the terminal portion of the inner web white. Both webs white in the second 

 outer pail-. This is probably the species observed by Ur. v. Martens in the collection of 

 the Manilla Military Library and identified by him with C. macrurus, Horsf 



56. * Caprimulgus griseatus. 



Caprimulgus griseatus , G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 629, "Philippines^' (1869), desa\ nulla. 



Founded on a single example, in the British Museum, obtained from the Philippines 

 through the Brothers Verreaux. It belongs to the same group as C monticola and 

 C. affinis, being intermediate in dimensions. Wing 6-25, tail 4 inches. The type is in 

 very grey plumage. More examples must be compared before its specific distinctness 

 can be established. 



CUCULID.E. 



CUCULINJE. 



Cacomantis, S. Miiller. 



57. * Cacomantis merulinus. 



Le petit Coucou de I'isle de Panay, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 121, pi. 81. 



Cucidus merulinus, Scopoli, Del. PI. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89, no. 48 (1786), ex Sonn. ; Schlegel, part. 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 21. 

 Petit Coucou de I'isle de Panay, D'Aubenton, PL Eul. 814, ex Sonn '. 

 Le Coucou h tete grise et ventre jaune, Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 382, ex Sonn. 

 Cuculus flavus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 421, no. 45 (1786), ex MontbeiUard, ex Sonn.; Waldeu, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 332. 

 Hah. Luzon ( Gevers) ; Panay {Sonnerat). 

 On this and its allied forms conf. Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 53. 



Chalcococcyx, Cabanis. 



58. * Chalcococcyx amethystinus. 



Lampromorpha amethystina, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98, "neighbourhood of Manilla." 

 Cuculus xantlwrhynchus , Horsf., apud v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 19, no. 97. 



Mr. Blyth in 1842 (J. A. S. B. xii, 1, p. 245) expressed himself unable to see in what 

 the Philippine Amethystine Cuckoo, as described by Vigors [1. c), differed from the Javan 

 and Malayan species, and in his catalogue of the Calcutta Museum, no. .354, identified 

 the two forms under Horsfield's title. But there is no evidence that examples had 

 been compared; and no Philippine example was contained in the Calcutta Museum. 

 ' There can be little doubt that D'Aubenton figured Sonnerat s type. 



