204 Notices and Descriptions of various new [No. 159. 



Zoology,*) v. C. pumilus, Lesson, vide XII, 945; but with these two 

 I am unacquainted. 



Of the species of Cuculus, I have now nothing further to add, than 

 that I feel satisfied of the identity of C. nisicolor, Hodgson, J. A. S. 

 XII, 943, with the common C. fugax : of C. micropterus, a particu- 

 larly fine male has the wing as much as eight inches and a quarter 

 long, and the rest in proportion ; while of C. canorus i an equally fine 

 male has the wing fully nine inches long ; the general characters of the 

 two birds, however, rendering them easy of distinction .■ of C. Sonneratii 

 (v. pravatus, Horsf., v. rufovittatus, Drapiez), a specimen in nestling 

 dress is altogether more coarsely barred than the adult, with pale rufes- 

 cent upon a black ground above, the under parts white banded with 

 dusky, and having the cross bars broader than in the mature plumage ; 

 bill but fifteen- sixteenths of an inch to gape, but the general resem- 

 blance to the adult still sufficient to indicate the species at a glance, the 

 half-feathered tarse helping to characterize it apart from C. tenuirostris 

 and C. merulinus ; lastly, of Eudynamys, besides the Australian Coel, 

 which was identified with that of India and the Malay countries by 

 Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield, but which Mr. Swainson has separat- 

 ed (on account of its considerably larger size,) as Eu. australis, the 

 Cue. taitensis, Sparrman, of New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, 

 is referred to this genus by Mr. G. R. Gray, (vide Appendix to Dr. 

 Dieffenbach's ' New Zealand/ Vol. II, 193). 



Caprimulgidce. Three allied species of this tribe appear to have 

 been lately confounded under the name Caprimulgus macrurus, Hors- 

 field. These are — 



1. C. albonotatus, Tickell, J. A. S. II., 580 : C. gangeticus, 

 nobis, mentioned in An. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 95; regarded 

 as distinct from macrurus^ Horsfield, in J. A. S. XII, 178 (foV), — 

 but referred to macrurus in XL, 586, an identification in which Dr. 

 Horsfield coincided. The size, however, of C. macrurus of Java is 

 considerably smaller ; and there is a closely allied species in Southern 

 India, which, agreeing better in dimensions with the Javanese bird, 

 I therefore presumed might be identical with the latter. Mr. Jerdon, 

 who has treated critically of the Indian species of this genus in the 



* On the same plate is figured a " Spotted Curucui" from Ceylon, which is evidently 

 the Cuculus (Chrysococcyx) lucidus. 



