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As to C. canorus itself, we incline to the opinion that there are two 
eastern races of it, a more northern one, pale and with narrow bands below, 
inhabiting Siberia and (wintering in ?j China (see Styan, supra^ and Tacza- 
nowski, “Fanne Orn. Sib. Orient.” 1893, II, 685 - — here called C. canorus bore- 
alis (Pall.)), and a race with broader, blacker bands, C. canorus canoroides^ the 
subject of the present article, which visits the East Indies in winter and pro- 
bably inhabits more southern latitudes than C. c. borealis in summer. This view 
seems to coincide with the opinion of Mr. Hartert, who has most kindly looked 
into the question for us and, after carefully examining the material at Tring 
and seeing that in the British Museum, informed us that the birds from South 
Celebes, Talaut, and the Lesser Sunda Islands “cannot, I think, be the eastern 
C. canorus^\ They are, we believe, the more south-eastern, C. c. canoroides. 
The following data apparently show that the Common Cuckoo occurs only 
as a winter migrant in the East Indies south of the Philippines, though the 
facts to hand are insufficient and the collecting season varies in different localities. 
Japan; Summer visitor (S e e b o li m b 11). 
China; Summer visitor (Swinh. f 1^ b 2, David b 7, Styan b 10). 
India; Winter (Hume b 6). 
Andamans; Hov. 16*^ (Hume b 6). 
Biirmali; Aug. to Feb. (Oates b 9). 
Philippines • — Mindanao; 1 in summer 1S89 (Platen c 11). 
Borneo; “Occurs on migration on the coast" (Hose b 15). 
Talaut Island; 11 specimens, Autumn (Hat. Coll, in Mus. Dresd. & Tring). 
Grreat Sangi; Jan. 25^^ (Platen cll.). 
Celebes; March and April (Meyer and Hat. Coll., Dresd. Mus.). 
Ternate; Oct., Hov., Dec. (Bruijn c 4, Fischer c 7). 
Amboina; Hov. (Bruijn c 4, Platen c 5). 
Waigiou: Oct., Hov. (Guillem, c 8). 
Aru; Dec. (Guillem, c 8). 
Hew Guinea; Sept. 18*^ 1877 (D’Alb. c 4). 
Hew Britain; “The eastern representative of our European Cuckoo was repeatedly 
observed and collected by me from Hov ember till January, as well as in Hew 
Britain as round about Cape York" (Finsch, C. cuculoides, Mitth. Orn. Ver. 
Wien 1884, 92; Vog. Stklsee-Inseln 1884, 12). 
? Horth Australia; Jan. (Gould d II, c 2). 
On the breeding of the Cucidinae compare the articles on Eudpnamis melano- 
rhyncha and Cuculus saturatus. 
4 ^ 62 . ? CUCULUS SATURATUS Hdgs. 
Himalayan Cuckoo. 
a. Cuculus intermedius (1) Seeb. (nec Vahl), B. Japan 1890, 169, pt.?; (2) Oates, Hume’s 
Hests and Eggs Ind. B. 1890, H, 381; (3) Shelley, Oat. B. XIX, 1891, 252, partim; 
(4) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1894, 10, partim; ? (5) Buttik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s 
Beise 1893, HI, 275; (6) Oust., Houv. Arch, du Mus. 1893, 136. 
