248 ORNITHOLOGY. 



3. Genus EUDYNAMYS, Vig. and Eorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 

 XV, p. 303 (1826). 



1. EuDYNAMYS TAiTENSis {Spo.rrman) . 



Cucuhis taitensis, Sparrman, Muse. Carls. PL XXXII (1787). 

 Cucuhis tahitius, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 412 (1788). 

 Caculus fasciatus, Forster, Desc. An. p. 160 (1844). 



Eudynainys cuneicauda, Peale, ZooL U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 139 (1st ed. 1848).* 



Atlas, Ornithology, Plate XXII, fig. 2. Adult? 



The only specimen of this species in the collection of the Expedition, 

 appears to us to be that of a young bird, and although slightly smaller 

 than the average size of numerous other specimens now before us, from 

 the collection of the Philadelphia Academy, it is apparently entirely 

 identical. 



Our plate represents this bird about two-thirds of the natural size. 

 The specimen in the collection was obtained in the Island of Ovolau, 

 one of the Feejees. Its sex is not stated. 



* " Above, sepia-brown, with rufous lines on the crown, and white spots on the back; 

 beneath white, the feathers having central lines of sepia-brown ; superciliary line, band 

 on the cheek, and throat, pale tawny ; wings moderate, pointed ; fourth quill longest, 

 third nearly equal; color, sepia-brown, banded with white; shafts white; under coverts 

 white; upper coverts sepia-brown, with a terminal round white spot; scapulars banded 

 with white, and having a terminal white spot like the coverts ; tail cuneate, the feathers 

 pointed, sepia-brown, crossed by numerous curved bars of white and pale tawny ; shafts 

 brown above, white beneath; upper coverts brown, barred with white; lower coverts 

 white; upper mandible brown; lower mandible yellow; legs dusky. 



"Total length, fifteen and two-tenths inches ; wings, from the carpal joint, seven and 

 two-tenths inches; tail, eight and one-tenth inches; outer feathers, four and three-tenths 

 inches ; tarsi, one and three-tenths of an inch ; middle toe, including the claw, one and 

 one-fourth of an inch ; claw, four-tenths of an inch; outer hind toe, one and one-tenth 

 of an inch; claw, three-tenths of an inch; inner hind toe, six-tenths of an inch; claw, 

 three-tenths of an inch ; bill, nine-tenths of an inch ; to the angle of the mouth, one and 

 four-tenths of an inch." (Mr. Peale, as above.) 



