428 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 
80. COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 
Coccystes glandarius Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 212 
(1891) ; N. C. Rotlis. & Wollast. p. 24. 
a. $ . Kaka, 22nd April. No. 392. 
b. S- Goz-Abu-Gumar, 19th May. No. 517. 
Iris hazel ; bill blackish, ochreous at base of lower man- 
dible ; legs and feet ashen. 
[The Great Spotted Cuckoo was not at all common. — ■ 
E. M. H.] 
81. Centropus superciliosus. 
Centropus superciliosus Hempr. & Ehr. ; Grant & Reid, 
p. 670 ; N. C. Roths. & Wollast. p. 24. 
a. S ' Ed-Duem, 22nd May. No. 537. 
Iris bright red ; bill black ; legs and feet olivaceous. ' 
[I only saw the White-eyebrowed Lark-heeled Cuckoo 
once. — R. M. H.] 
82. Centropus monachus. 
Centropus monachus (Riipp.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 310. 
a. S ' Kaka, 7th May. No. 443. 
Iris crimson ; bill, legs, and feet black. 
[The Purple-headed Lark-heeled Cuckoo was very common 
along the river and khors. It lived amongst the long flags.- — 
R. M. H.] 
83. COLIUS MACRURUS. 
Colius macrurus (Linn.) ; Witherby, p. 264 ; Grant & 
Reid, p. 670. 
Colius macrourus pulcher Neumann, J. f. O. 1900, p. 190. 
a-c. S ? . Kaka, 17th April & 1st May. Nos. 379, 
380, 416. 
Iris hazel ; bill red, black at tip ; legs and feet purplish red. 
The three birds before us have the forehead very faintly 
tinged with fulvous and are scarcely distinguishable in this 
respect from what Mr. Neumann calls C. macrourus pulcher. 
We are inclined to believe that the fulvous colouring of the 
forehead in some individuals is adventitious and probably due 
to something on which the birds feed : it is apparently not 
caused by different surroundings. 
