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COCCYSTES GLANDAEIUS. 



(GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO.) 



The Great Spotted Cuckow, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. 57, p. 57 (1748). 



Cuculus andalusice, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 126 (1760). 



Cuculus glandarius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 169. no. 5 (1766). 



Cuculus pisanus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 416 (1788). 



i.Bee-cuckow or Moroc, Bruce, Trav. App. p. 178 (1790). 



\Cuculus abyssinicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxi (1801, ex Bruce). 



Cuculus melissophonus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 230 (1817). 



Coccyzus pisanus (Gm.), Audouin, Expl. PI. Savig. Ois. d'Egypte, p. 266 (1825). 



Coccysus glandarius (L.), Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 154 (1827). 



Cuculus macrourus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 153 (1831). 



Cuculus gracilis, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 154 (1831). 



Coccystes, Gloger (C. glandarius, L.), Handb. Vog. Eur. p. 449 (1834). 



Oxylophus glandarius (L.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 40 (1838). 



Coccystes glandarius (L.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 34 (1840). 



Cuculus phaiopterus, Bfipp. fide Bp. Conspect. Gen. Av. p. 102 (1850). 



Coucou-geai, Coucou tachete, French; Cucu rabilongo, Portuguese; Cucu real, Cucu del 

 mono, Spanish. 



Figure notabiles. 



Temminck, PI. Col. 414 ; Edwards, I. c. ; Werner, Atlas, Suppl. Zygodactyles, pi. 2 ; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 241; id. B. of G. Brit. iii. pi. 69; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 130. 

 figs. 1, 2; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 13. fig. 12; Eoux, Orn. Prov. pis. 67, 68; Savigny, 

 Desc. de l'Egypte, pi. 4. fig. 2; % Bruce, Travels, Appendix, pi. to p. 178. 



d ad. pileo cristato et nuchii sordide cinereis, rhachibus nigris : dorso, alis, scapidaribus et tectricibus alarum 

 sordide brunneis vix fulvido adumbratis, plumis plus minusve albo apicatis : uropygio et supracaudalibus 

 cinereo lavatis et vix albido notatis : cauda nigricanti-brunneaV, rectricibus omnibus, duabus centralibus 

 exceptis, valde albo terminatis : facie laterali pileo concolori : corpore subtus albo, pectore vix isabellino 

 lavato : rostro nigricanti-corneo, mandibula ad basin flavicante : pedibus plumbeis : iride fusca. 



Juv. capite suprk et lateraliter et nucba nigricanti-brunneis : dorso, scapularibus, remigibus seeundariis, tec- 

 tricibus alarum, uropygio et cauda, ut in adulto, sed saturatioribus : remige extimo toto et secundo in 

 pogonio externo sordide brunneis, reliquis et secundo in pogonio interno ferrugineis, versus apicem 

 fuscis et albo apicatis : corpore subtus albo, gutture et pectore rufescente ocbraceo lavatis. 



Adult Male (Madrid, June) . Crown and nape dull bluisb grey, the shafts of the feathers being black, back, 

 wings, scapulars, and wing-coverts dull earth-brown, in parts with a faint fulvous tinge ; some of the 

 primaries, the secondaries, wing-coverts, and the dorsal feathers here and there broadly tipped with 



