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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa . 
Only the male calls, the female being very retiring in habits 
and difficult to secure. The colours of this Cuckoo so per¬ 
fectly match the green of the trees that I have found not a 
little difficulty in distinguishing it when sitting still, although 
I have actually located the tree in which the bird is by its 
call. Each male appears to frequent the same spot day after 
day and keeps to the part of the forest it has reserved for 
itself, and never have I heard two calling from the same spot. 
The female from Zululand was shot at the nest of a Sunbird 
which was still in course of construction and which she was 
evidently watching. 
The soft parts are:—$. Irides brown; eyelid greenish 
blue ; bill greenish yellow, bluish at gape; legs and toes blue- 
slate-coloured, nails black. 
$ . Irides brown; eyelid blue; base of bill blue, tip 
black; legs and toes slate-coloured.] 
465. Chrysococcyx klaasi. 
CC. Durban Rd., Sept. 16 (1) ; Z. Umfolosi Station, 
July 15 (1); P. Coguno, Aug. 24 (1). 
When I prepared the 4 Birds of South Africa * I believed 
that this Cuckoo did not winter in South Africa, but it has 
since been taken by Taylor at Barberton in June (Bull. 
B. O. C. xvi. p. 7) and by Ivy in Albany and Davies in Pondo- 
land in the same month, so that it is evidently a resident or 
partial resident in South Africa throughout the year. 
[I have seen Klaas’s Cuckoo in the Cape Peninsula, near 
Umfolosi, and at Coguno. Except at the Cape, where a pair 
were seen, I have only noted it singly. It frequents the out¬ 
skirts of patches of bush, and I have found it very shy and 
retiring in habits. The cry is a single note, generally uttered 
on the wing. 
The soft parts are :—Irides dark brown ; bill pale green ; 
legs and toes very pale green.] 
466. Chrysococcyx cupreus. 
Tv. Woodbush, Jan. 3 (1) ; Petersburg, Mch. 2 & 4 (2). 
[“ Didiic 33 of the Colonists. 
I have observed the Golden Cuckoo in the Northern 
