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Birds of Celebes: Cuculidae. 
below shining dusky, a narroAV band of white across the basal third of the secondaries 
(except the inner ones) and of the primaries (except the tlmee or four outer ones), 
a deep, narrow notch of white on inner web of first prunary at half length; tail 
Drongo-like, the outermost feather short, about f the length of the tail, with about 
4 wliite spots near the shaft, tlie two terminal ones extending into obscure bars; 
tibio-tarsal feathers behind white and woolly; one or two of the longest under tail- 
feathers just tipped with white: bill black; feet (in skin) Imowm. Wing 136 mni; 
tail c. 145; tarsus c. 16; bill from nostril 15.5 (type, [Q] ad. Batchian: Meyer — 
Nr. 1972. 
Listribution. Batchian (Meyer J); South Celebes — Indrulaman (Everetts); North Celebes 
(Hose, in the British Museum). 
The type of this species, which was obtained by one of Meyer’s hunters 
in Batchian, remained the only specimen known for more than tw’enty years, 
when the species was rediscovered by Everett on the foot-hills of the Peak of 
Bonthain, and tw'o males in perfect plumage were sent to the Tring Museum. 
They differ in no important points from the type. 
Capt. Shelley recognises three species of the genus Surniculus, viz. 8. liigu- 
bris (Horsf.) ranging from India and Ceylon to Borneo and Java, velutinus 
Sharpe knowm from half a dozen islands of the Philippine group (see Grant, 
Ibis 189b, 559), and 8. mmschenhroeki from Batchian and, as we now see, N. & S. 
Celebes. The last is nearly related to <8. lugubris, which differs by having the 
under parts glossy black-brown, instead of glossy blue-black, the under tail- 
coverts are transversely marked with wTiite and the white bars on the outer- 
most tail-feather are well marked. >8. velutinus has the tail square. 
When writing the history of the Cuckoos of Celebes for this work (about 
three years ago) we remarked with surprise upon 8urniculus and Chrgsococcgx 
as not having yet been found there, but the labours of Mr. Everett and of 
the Drs. Sarasin have now brought the discovery of both in the south of the 
island, the latter genus in twm species. 
A specimen from Mr. Hose, marked “O', October 1895: Bantik, Celebes”, 
and sent by Dr. Sharpe to the Dresden Museum for comparison with the type, 
has a much larger white patch on the middle of the occiput and the white 
bars on the outermost tail-feather less obliterated than in the type. Everett’s 
2 specimens from S. Celebes differ in much the same w'ay, but it is hardly 
probable that these are racial characters. The wing of Hose’s specimen 
measures 127 mm. 
GENUS EUDYNAMIS Vig. Horsf. 
In the Koels, which are about the size of a Turtle-dove, the bill is strong 
and almost perpendicularly decurved at the tip; the feet are large, the 
middle toe without the claw’ being as long as the tarsus ; the wing is moderately 
