from the Ruo and Shire Rivers. 587 
34. CoccYSTEs JACOBiNus (Bodd.) ; Shelley^ Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xix. p. 217 (1891). 
a. Ad. Huo Biver, 1899. 
Not uncommon^ but difficult to shoot. Several of these 
birds were seen on the Elephant-marshy helping Chalcites 
cupreus to clear the bushes of insects during the flood. 
35. CoccYSTEs GLANDARius (Linn.) ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xix. p. 212 (1891). 
I saw several of these birds, but only managed to bag one 
— a very fine male. 
36. Chrysococcyx smaragdineus (Sw.) ; Shelley, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus./xix. p. 280 (1891). 
This beautiful bird is not uncommon in the more open 
bush near the Buo. The male is very easily shot, for he will, 
during the early part of the breeding-season, take his post 
on a tall tree and utter bis loud whistle, which can be heard 
for a great distance, remaining in the same place for hours 
together. These birds often haunt the same tree day after 
day. They are extremely pugnacious, and are frequently 
seen chasing one another high in the air. I obtained six 
males, but only one female. 
37. Chrysococcyx klaasi (Steph.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 
This species was much rarer than either the Emerald or 
the Golden Cuckoo, but was often to be heard calling. It 
was very seldom seen, as it keeps to low thick cover. 
38. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 
p. 7. 
This species arrives much sooner than the other Cuckoos. 
It is very noisy and not at all easily shot. At the end of 
February, when the floods were very bad at Chiromo, I was 
out in a canoe looking for specimens. In one place, where 
a few bushes stuck out above the water, I saw fully twenty 
individuals of this species, as well as many other insect- 
eating birds. On reaching the bushes I found out the 
reason ; they were simply covered with insects driven up into 
