INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 161 



All subsequent authors appear to have followed suit, yet without having compared 

 actual specimens. In the ' Conspectus ' (i. p. 107) Bonaparte united the two titles, and 

 even left out the Philippine habitat. Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. iv. p. 15), Horsfield 

 and Moore (Cat. E. Ind. Co. Mus. ii. p. 706), Dr. v. Martens {I. c). Professor Schlegel 

 (Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 32), and Mr. G. R. Gray (Hand-list, no. 9049), all made the 

 same identification ; and yet no Philippine examples are recorded as being preserved in 

 any of the Museums these authors had access to. 



Cuculus xanthorhynchus, Horsf., extends to Borneo ; and it is therefore not of itself 

 improbable that it also occurs in Luzon ; but as there is no positive evidence of the fact, 

 it is best to keep the two titles separate until the contrary is proved. 



HiEKOCOCCYX, S. Miiller. 



59. * HiEROCOCCTX STKENUUS. 



Hierococq/x strenuus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 96, " Manilla ;" id. Birds of Asia, pt. viii. pi. 31 



" Manilla " (1856) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 362. 

 Heirococq/x sparveroides (Vigors), G. R. Gray, Hand-list, 9057. 



Hah. Manilla (G'oiiW). 



Hardly separable from H. sparverioides (Vigors). Mr. G. R. Gray {I. c.) unites the 

 two forms. Mr. A. Hume treats them as distinct; for (Pr. A. S. B. 1872, p. 71) that 

 gentleman states that H. strenuus, Gould, inhabits Thayetmyo. Before this identifi- 

 cation can be accepted, it will be as well to compare Thayetmyo individuals with the 

 type (the only specimen existing) in the British Museum. 



60. * HiEEOOOCCYX PECTOEALIS. 



Hiracococcyx pedoralis, Cab. Mus. Hein. iv. pt. 1, p. 27, no. 23, " Philippines" (1862). 



? Cuculus hyperythrus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 96, " China ;" Birds of Asia, pt. viii. " Shanghai." 



Hab. Philippines {Cabanis). 



Mr. Swinhoe has remarked that the British-Museum specimen of C. hyperythrus is 

 labelled " Manilla" (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 305, no. 456). 



Coucou a ventre raye de I'isle Panay, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 120, pi. 79. 

 Cuculus flaviventris, Scop. Del. PI. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89, no. 46 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Cuculus radiatus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 420, no. 41 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Sonnerat's account and figure of this supposed Philippine species of Cuculus agrees 

 well with Cuculus solitarius, Vieillot ' ; and I have little doubt that Sonnerat in this, as 

 in so many other instances, described from an African and not a Philippine individual. 

 The titles, however, founded on Sonnerat's plates have been much bandied about, and 

 applied to various species of Asiatic Cuckoos, by different authors (conf. Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



' Cuculus cnpensis, Gm., founded on le Coucou du cap de Bonne-espei-ance, Montb. (Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. .353). 

 is a Cuckoo in hepatic plumage, which it is difficult to determine. 



