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wherein also they resemble the "Woodpeckers. I am unacquainted 
with the conformation of their soft parts, further than that the tra- 
veller Bruce informs us, of his * Bee Cuckoo ' (Appendix to Travels 
to discover the Source of the Nile, v. 179), that 'the tongue is 
sharp-pointed, can be drawn to almost half its length out of the 
mouth beyond the point of the beak, and is very flexible ; ' a state- 
ment which I did not remark until long after I had arrived at the 
opinion here expressed. If my view be correct, it will probably be 
further confirmed by the stomach proving to have its muscular coat 
considerably more developed than in the Cuckoos ; by the absence 
of cceca, as in the Woodpeckers (normally), — these existing in all the 
Cuckoo tribe which I have examined ; and by the sternal apparatus, 
the form of which is very difi'erent in the "Woodpeckers and the 
Wryneck from what it is in the Cuckoos." — (J. A. S. Beng. (1842), 
p. 167.) 
October 1st, 1856. 
Fam. IV. CUCULID^, Leach, 
Subfam. II. CENTEOPINA. 
Genus Centropus, Illiger, Prod. S^c. p. 205 (1811). 
PoLOPHiLTJS, LeacJi (1814). 
CoRTDONix, Vieillot, Analyse (1816). 
998. CENTROPUS SUPEBGILIOSUS, Mppell 
Centropus superciliosus, Biippell, Fauna Abyss, t. 21, 
/. 1 ; 8yst. Uelers. p. 96. G. B. Gray, Gen. ofB. 
II. p. 455. Bonap., G. G. Av. p. 107. 
A. ? . Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
999. GENT BO PUS MONAGHUS, Buppell. 
Centropus monacbus, Buppell, Fauna Abyss, t. 21, /. 2 ; 
Syst. Uebers. p. 96. G. B. Gra/y, Gen. of B. II. 
p. 455. Bonap., G. G. Av. p. 107. 
A. Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
1000. CENT BO PUS BUFIPENNIS, Illiger. 
Centropus rufipennis, Illiger (Berlin Trans. 1812). 
Strickland. Blyth (Theobald), J. A. S. Beng. 
XXIV, p. 530. 
