269. 
269b. Aviceda cuculoides 
168 
tachial blackish stripes; below white, 
upper breast and sides longitudinally 
marked with rufous brown, lower flanks 
almost uniform. 
Aviceda cuculoides cuculoides Swains., Bds. 
W. Africa, i., p. 104, pl. 1 (1836). [“ W. 
Africa’ =Senegal (on label), type in Camb. 
Univ. Mus.] 
W. African Cuckoo-Falcon. 
Smaller ; wing ad. 293 mm. ; above ashy 
brown; head, crest and interscapulary 
region darker, inclining to slaty black; 
quills brown above and ashy white below, 
barred with dark brown on inner webs, the 
subterminal band broad; upper tail- 
coverts tipped and barred with white ; tail 
ashy grey, tipped with white, with broad 
subterminal and 3 other bands of black ; 
throat and chest clear grey ; below buffy 
white, barred with tawny rufous; under 
wing-coverts uniform tawny rufous. 
. Aviceda cuculoides batest (Swann), Syn. List 
Accip.,p. 107 (1920). [River Ja, Cameroon 
type in Brit. Mus., Reg. No. 1911. 5.31.60.) 
Bates’s Cuckoo Falcon. 
Much darker above, uniform slaty black ; 
throat and chest pale grey, the barrings 
below confined to upper breast and of a 
much darker brown colour ; belly, flanks, 
thighs and under tail-coverts pure white, 
with little trace of buff; under wing- 
coverts uniform rusty rufous. 
emint (Reichenow), 
jJ.f.0. 1894, p. 163, footnote. [S.W. of 
Albert Nyanza.| 
W. Africa 
(Senegal to 
Gold Coast, and 
inland to 
N. Nigeria and 
the Niam-Niam 
country. 
W. Africa 
(Cameroon to 
Aruwhimi R., 
Upper Congo). 
Equatorial 
Africa (Ituri 
dist. of Belgian 
Congo). 
