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remiges below grey-brown, passing on the inner webs where they rest upon the 
body into pale cinnamon and into white at the base; bill and feet black; “iris reddish, 
rim of the eyelids cherry-red” (cf, Macassar, 22. June, 1895: P. & F. Sarasin). 
Young. Above browner and less glossy than the adult, the edges of some of the feathers pale; 
below wliite without bars, becoming greyer on breast and throat, and brown on sides 
of head; under wing-coverts and much of the inner webs of the remiges buff-white, 
the former slightly barred, a few sagittate bars on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts 
tail much as in the adult, but hardly a trace of bars (except the subterminal one) 
on the second feather from the outside (Sosso, S. W. Central Celebes, 11. Aug. 1895: 
P. & F. Sarasin). 
Measurements (3 adults, S. Celebes). Wing 91 — 94 mm; tail 55 — 61; tarsus c. 14.5; bill 
from nostril 10 — 11. 
Eggs. See North f 2. 
Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Maingay, etc. e 2); Sumatra (Eaffles a i); Borneo (Motley, 
etc. e 2)\ Philippines — Mindanao (Everett e 4), Negros (Steere J 2), ? Basilan 
(Steere d 4), Sooloo Is. (Everett e 5); Celebes — Macassar (P. & F. Sarasin e 4, 
Everett e 5), Indrulaman (Everett e 5), Sosso, S. W. Central Celebes (P. & F. S. 
6 4)] Sumbawa (Doherty e 5); Flores and Timor (Wallace e 2)\ N. W. and N. 
Australia (Gould c 2, e 2, Bamsay g 1)\ New Guinea and Solomon Islands (fide 
Shelley e 2). 
This Cuckoo was first found in Celebes in June and July, 1895, at Macassar 
by the cousins Sarasin, and again in August at Sosso in South-west Central 
Celebes — four (examples being obtained in all; later in the same year two 
more were sent to the Thing Museum by Mr. Everett from Macassar and 
Indrulaman near the Peak of Bonthain. Without making a careful comparison 
of specimens from other parts of the range of the species, it is not possible to 
form an opinion as to whether it is migratory or a resident form in Celebes. 
The distinction of the East Indian and Australasian forms of Chrysococcyx is not 
easy. The present species may generally be known by its small size, the wing, 
according to Capt. Shelley, not exceeding 97 mm, but equally small measurements 
may sometimes be found in other species, for instance C. hasalis. C. poecilurus 
Gray of North Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas is more thickly banded 
below, the dark bands being % the width of the intervening white spaces, the 
second lateral tail-feather besides the subterminal band displays two spots only 
to represent the bars on the inner web in malayanus; C. plagosus (Lath.) has 
only the subterminal band on the second tail-feather, and the bands below are 
broader; this species is found by Shelley to inhabit Australia and parts of 
Papuasia. C. hasalis (Horsf ) has recently been recorded by Mr. Hartert from 
South Celebes and shown to differ by the characters given below. 
64. CHRYSOCOCCYX BASALIS (Horsf.). 
Larger Bronze Cuckoo. 
a. Cuculus basalis (1) Horsf., Tr. L. Soc. 1821, XHI, 179. 
Chrysococcyx basalis (1) Blytli, J. A. S. B. 1846, XV, 54. 
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