cucuLiim 
The species of this ^enus are found in India, Africa, and Europe. They are migratory, and are usually observed 
sin-ly or in pairs on the low branches of trees, or on the bushy ground, seeking for various kinds of insects, both m 
their perfect and imperfect states, on which they chiefly subsist. 
Levaill. Ois. tl’Afr. 207, 208. ; C. edolius Cm. ; C. jacobinus Bodd. 
PL enl. 872 . ; C. melanoleucos Gmel. ; Leptosomus afer Frankl. 
4. O. afer (Steph.) Gen. Zool. ix. p. 115. pi. 24., Levaill. Ois. 
d’Afr. t. 209., Leach, Zool. Misc. pi. 31. — Cuculus Levaillantii 
Less. Swains. Zool. 111. pi. 18. 
3. O. serratus (Sparrm.; ivius. - 
1 O . glandarius (Linn.) Edwards s Birds, pi. 57., Temm. PL 
col. 414. — Cuculus tnacrurus Brehm ; C. Andalusia: Brin. ; C. 
pisanus Gmel. Hist, de 1’ Egypt, Ois. t. 4. f. 2. 
2. O. coromandus (Linn.) PL enl. 274. f. 2., Levadl.Ois. d Afr. 
t. 213. — Cuculus collaris Vieill. 
Eudynamys Fig. fy Horsf.* 
BUI Ion", broad, with the onlmen curved, cad the sides compressed to the tip, which is slightly 
emarginated ; the gonys short and ungulate* ; the nostrils baeal, lateral, and placed m a short 
membranous groove, with the opening large and exposed. W^s mo orate, wrth the fourth and fifth 
quills equal and longest. Tail lengthened and rounded. Tarsi rather short, robust, and covered m front 
with broad scales. Toes unequal, the outer anterior toe the longest. 
, • i portum seasons of the year, in various parts of India, its Archipelago, Australia, 
These migratory it 3 f® g glands. They u: ., la l|... frequent, singly or in pairs, the various kinds of fruit- 
Zealand, *£. ^ especially delight in the fig of the banyan tree, 
hearing trees, on the tart y wkic h are frequently repeated, eaeh time increasing unhl rt be»mcs 
! Tim female of an Indian species is stated by Mr. Jordon ,0 deposit its eggs in the nest of the 
Corvus splendens, from which it dislodges the crow s eggs. 
1. E. orientalis (Linn.) Vig. & Horsf. PL enl. 274. f. 1. — Cu- 
culus crassirostris VieiU. ? Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. t 214. ?j C. punctata. 
Linn. Pl. enl. 771. 5 C. scolopaceus Linn. Pl. enl. 586., Edwards s 
Birds, pl. 59. ; C. mindanensis Linn. Pl. enl. 277. ; Centropus 
fasciatus C. W. Smith. 
2. E. indicus (Lath.). , „„ _ f 
3. E. niger (Linn.) Hard. Edwards’s Birds, pl. 58. — Type of 
Gymnopus Blyth (1843). 
4. P E. lionoratus (Linn.) Pl. enl. 294. 
5. E. maculatus (Bodd.) PL enl. 764., Levaill. Ois. d Afr. t. 
216. ? 
6. E. australis Swains. Two Cent. & a Quart, p. 344. — Cuculus 
cyanocephalus Lath. ? Lamb. Icon. ined. i. 34.?; Eudynamys orien- 
talis Vig. df Horsf. 
7. E. taitensis (Sparr.) Mus. Carls, t. 32. - Cuculus tait.us 
Gmel. . 
8. E. Flindersii Vig. & Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. 305., Grift. An. 
Kingd. iii. pl. p. . 
9. E. rufiventer loess. Zool. de la Coqu. p. b2u.. 
10. E. picatus Mull. & Schl. Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 176. 
H. E . melanorhynchus Mull. & Schl. Verh. Nat. Gesch. P . 176. 
. Established by Vigors and Dr. HersdeU in ,Sd6 ( L„, Trans, ». »). .. embraces - Mr. Bty.b W 
July, 1847. 
