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GREEN-BANDED CUCKOO. 
Chatcites auratus, Lesson. 
Golden-green ; beneath white ; head, wings, and lateral tail- 
covers, striped with white ; flanks and inner wing-covers 
with transverse green bars. 
Cuculus auratus, Auct Coueou Didric, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af 
v. pi. 210,211. 
There is, in the hotter parts of Africa, a small race 
of Cuckoos, known at once hy their diminutive size 
and by the rich golden-green of their plumage. They 
do not differ, however, from the genuine Cuckoos 
in their habits, as Le Vaill ant assures us that they 
commit to other birds the rearing of their young. 
Although Africa appears to be their metropolis, their 
range extends eastward to the Indian Islands and 
southward as far as New Holland, each of which 
localities have furnished us with one species. To 
this group, which happens to be a perfectly natural 
one (the tenuirostral sub-genus of Cuculnt ), we re- 
tain the proposed name of Chalcitet ; and we shall 
now describe the most common species, which has 
hitherto been supposed peculiar to the Cape. Four 
specimens, however, received from Senegal, shows 
that its range extends to Western Africa. 
The whole of the upper plumage (except the 
