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Birds of Celebes: Cuculidae. 
Notwithstanding the careful work of Mr. Oates (h7), the present Cuckoo 
is most unsatisfactorily understood owing to the great difficulty of distinguishing 
the supposed species or subspecies, and a fresh comparison of the Himalayan 
birds should be made with those of China, Japan and the N.W. parts of the 
East Indies. 
GENUS CHRYSOCOCCYX Bole. 
Small Cuckoos of about the size of a Sparrow, easily recognised by the 
metallic green, bronze, or coppery on the upper parts, and, when 
barred, on the bars of the under parts. The bill and feet are dark in colour 
— grey, brown, leaden, or blackish; the wing is rather pointed, the secondaries 
falling short of the tip by about Vs the wing-length, the first primary is rather 
short, about V 2 the length of the second. The African species — 4 in number 
— have the under surface of the wing barred and are separated from those of 
India, the East Indies, Australia, and New Zealand by Capt. Shelley, the latter 
forms having a single oblique band across the wing below (Chalcococcyx). 
T 63. CHRYSOCOCCYX MALAYANUS (RaffL). 
Little Bronze Cuckoo. 
a. Cuculus malayanus (1) Baffles, Tr. L. Soc. 1822, XTTT , 286. 
Chrysococcyx malayanus (1) Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. 1856 — 58, 706. 
b. Chrysococcyx minutullus (1) Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, 128; (II) id., B. Austr. Suppl. 1859, 
pi. 56. 
c. Lamprococcyx minutullus (1) Cab. & Hein., Mus. Hein. 1862, IV, 15, note; (2) Gld., 
HB. B. Austr. 1865, I, 625. 
d. Chrysococcyx basalis (1) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 62, partim; (2) Sharpe, Tr. 
L. Soc. 1877, (2) I, 320; (3) JV. Bams., Tweedd. Orn. Works Index 1881, 656; 
(4)"? Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Philipp. Is. 1890, 12. 
e. Chalcococcyx malayanus (1) Wald., P. Z. S. 1878, 945; (2) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 
298; (3) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 247, 258; (4) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1896, 
Nr. 1, p. (5) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 159, 572. 
/'. Lamprococcyx malayanus (1) Hume, Str. F. 1878, VT, 503; (2) North, Pr. L. Soc. N. 
S. W. (2) IX, 39 (1894). 
g. Chalcites minutullus (1) Bams., Tab. List 1888, 15. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Shelley e 2. 
Figure and descriptions. Gould 6 J7, c 2\ Shelley e 2. 
Adult. Ab ove glossy bronze-green, an obscure subterminal band across the middle tail- 
feathers, bases of the feathers on forehead white; face and under parts white, the 
feathers of lores, superciliary region and ear-coverts with dark tips, the entire under 
parts, including the under wing-coverts barred with glossy bronze-brown; tail below 
with the outermost pair of rectrices crossed with four bands of black and white, 
next pair hazel on the inner web with three dark bars and a white S]Dot at the tip, 
outer web brown, third and fourth pairs hazel on the inner web with a terminal 
white or whitish spot and a subterminal blackish band, passing on to the outer webs 
which are brown, middle pam beloAV grey-brown, Avith a dark subterminal band; 
