Birds of Celebes: Cuculidae. 
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“Burong-pangil-udjan” i. e. “Rain-caller” (Meyer « 2), or “Burong socangge” (Nat. Coll, in 
Mus. Dresd.), Malays of the Minahassa. 
“Embis” (Meyer), or “Koko , imbantik” (Nat. Coll.), Natives of the interior of the Minahassa. 
“Sinde”, Tonkean, E. Celebes (Nat. Coll.). 
“Tokulat”, Banggai, iid. 
Figure and descriptions. Walden a i; Briiggemann 61; Shelley 1; Meyer cJJ (skeleton); 
M. & W g. 6. 
Adult. Head and hind neck greenish slate-grey, becoming greener on the upper hack, 
and dark slaty on the rump and upper tail-coverts; wing brownish glossed 
with bronze-green; metacarpus white, partly concealed; tail black, glossed with 
purple, the tij)s of the feathers white, the inner webs of some of the outer ones 
slightly notched with white; cheeks, chin and throat grey, paler than the head; 
all the other under parts, including under wing- and tail-coverts, deep cinnamon- 
rufous; wing below with a broad white band running across the inner webs of the 
quills near their base (N. Celebes, between Manado and Arakan, C 10876). 
Young in first plumage. Very different from the adult: above black, the feathers margined 
and barred with cinnamon-brownish, taking a more striate form on the head; under 
parts barred with white and black, the black predominating ; under wing-coverts 
white, with a few black bars and transverse spots; remiges below dusky blackish, 
with a broad buff- white hand across the middle of them; on the outermost quill a 
whitish spot only; tail black, barred or notched with cinnamon-rufous, the bars 
mostly not reaching down to. the shaft: “iris sepia; feet above greyish, below yellowish; 
hill above black, below reddish grey” (r?, Kema, 27. Oct. 93, and iuv. Tomohon, 
30. Apr. 94: P. & F. Sarasin). 
Immature in changing plumage. Half in young, half in adult dress; the adult coloration 
prevails on the under surface, though the rufous is browner and on the breast some 
of the feathers show vermiculate bars, often obscure; wings as in the young; head, 
hack and tail with adult and young feathering mingled together (E. Celebes, V. — VTTT. 
95: C 14437). 
The young of C. virescens is easy to distinguish from that of C. meruUnus by 
the under side of the wing, which is notched with rufous-cinnamon all along the 
inner webs in the latter; the predominating colour of the former is dusky black, of 
the latter cinnamon. 
Measurements. 
AVing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
nostr. 
a. 
(C 10876) ad. near Manado, VIII. — IX. 92 ... . 
115 
138 
16 
10.5 
b. 
(C 1865) ad. Manado, HI. 71 , ■ ■ 
111 
136 
14 
— 
c. 
(C 1866) ad. Manado, IH. 71 
118 
— 
17 
— 
d. 
(10875) ad. near Manado, VTTT. — IX. 92 
111 
132 
16 
— 
e. 
(C 5185) imm. Manado 
112 
134 
1 5 
18 
f- 
(C 5184) imm. Manado 
111 
124 
16 
11 
9- 
(C 14695) ad. Banggai, V.— VIII. 95 
106 
128 
13.5 
10.5 
h. 
(Sarasin Coll.) q^, Tomohon, 16. IV. 94 .' . . . . 
122 
143 
— 
11 
i. 
(Sarasin Coll.) Kema, 15. IX. 93 ..... . 
108 
127 
— 
11 
j- 
(Sarasin Coll.) imm., Kema, VHI. 93 
107 
130 
— 
— 
k. 
(Sarasin Coll.) Mapane N. Centr. Cel., 28. II. 95 
109 
130 
— 
11 
1 . 
(Sarasin Coll.) Loka, S. Cel., 8. IX. 95. . . . 
114 
130 
— 
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