Oedee PICARIjE.] [Fam. CUCULIDjE, 



EUDYNAMIS TAITENSIS. 



(LONG-TAILED CUCKOO.) 



Le Coucou brun varie de noir, Montb. Ois. vi. p. 376 (1779). 



Society Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 514 (1782). 



Cuculus taitensis, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, t. 32 (1787). 



Cuculus taitius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 412 (1788). 



Eudynamys taitensis, Gray, Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 193 (1843). 



Cuculus fasciatus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 160 (1844). 



Eudynamys cuneicauda, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 139, pi. 38. f. 2 (1848). 



Eudynamys tahitius, Gray, B. Tr. Isl. Pacif. Ocean, p. 35 (1859). 



Eudyndmis taitiensis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hem. Th. iv. p. 56 (1862). 



Eudynamis taJiitiensis, Potts, Trans. N. Z. Inst. vol. iii. p. 90 (1870). 



Native names. 

 Koekoea, Kawekawea, and Koheperoa. 



$ ad. brunneus, pileo longitudinaliter fulvo striato : corpore reliquo superiore brunneo et pallide ferrugineo 

 conspicue at irregulariter transfasciato : tectricibus alarum fulvo maculatis : cauda brunneo et ferrugineo 

 transfasciata alboque terminata : remigibus brunneis, ferrugineo maculatis, fascias irregulares formanti- 

 bus : supercilio angusto fulvo : regione auriculari brunnea angustissime fulvo lineata, : genis et collo 

 laterali albis ferrugineo lavatis et brunneo longitudinaliter striatis : subtus albicans, plumis medialiter 

 brunneo striatis et ferrugineo tinctis : bypocbondriis brunneo transfasciatis : subalaribus fulvescenti- 

 albis, anguste brunneo striatis : rostro pallide brunneo, ad basin saturatiore, mandibula, flavicante : pe- 

 dibus viridi-flavis, unguibus brunneis : iride rubescente, interdum flavicante : regione opbtbalmica nuda 

 sordide viridi. 



2 vix a mari distinguenda : paullo minor : coloribus sordidioribus. 



Juv. pallidior, supra ubique albido maculatus, nee fasciatus : cauda pallide fulvo transfasciata : subtus ocbraceus, 

 pectore abdomineque maculis elongatis triquetris notatis ; rostro flavicanti-brunneo : pedibus viridi-flavis. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark brown, with a purplish gloss, longitudinally streaked on the head and neck, 

 barred and spotted on the wings and back with rufous ; wing-coverts tipped with fulvous white ; quills 

 dark brown, banded with pale rufous ; tail-feathers marked in their whole extent with narrow alternate 

 bars of dark brown and rufous, tipped with white and finely glossed with purple ; a broad line of 

 yellowish white passing from the nostrils over the eyes, and another extending downwards from the 

 angles x>f the mouth ; lores and chin white, with numerous black hair-like filaments ; sides of the neck 



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