Order CUCULIFORMES. 
No. 22. 
Family CUCULIDM. 
URODYNAMIS TAITENSIS. 
LONG-TAILED CUCKOO. 
(Plate 19.) 
Urodynamis Salvadori, Omit. Pap. e Moll., Vol. I., p. 370, 1880 (pref. June 15th, 1879). Type 
(by original designation) : Cuculus taitensis Sparrman. 
Cuculus taitensis Sparrman, Mus. Carlson., fasc. ii., No. xxxii., 1787 : Tahiti. 
Society Cuckoo Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. II. (Vol. I., pt. ii.), p. 514, 1782 : Otaheite. 
Cuculus taitensis Sparrman, Mus. Carlson., fasc. ii., No. xxxii., 1787 : Tahiti. 
Cuculus tahitius Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. 1, p. 412, July 25tli, 1788 : Tahiti. 
Cuculus perlatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 232, March loth, 1817 : Tahiti. 
Cuculus Jasciatus Forster, Diser. Anim., ed. Licht., p. 160, (pref. Jan.) 1844 : Tahiti. 
Eudynamys cuneicauda Peale, United States Explor. Exped., Birds, p. 139, (in or before Oct.) 
1848 : Ovolau, Fiji Islands (fig. as E, tahitius Cassin, ib., 2nd, pi. 22, 1858). 
Eudynamis taitensis Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st edn., p. 73, pi. 8, 1873 : New Zealand ; 
id., 2nd edn., Vol. I., p. 127, pi. 14, March 1888 : New Zealand ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 448, Jan. 1912. 
Urodynamis taitiensis Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 314, 1891 (pref. March 28th). 
Urodynamis taitensis Mathews and Iredale, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. IV., p. 110, Dec. 16th, 1920 ; 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 321, Dec. 1913: Norfolk Island; id., Syst. Av. Australas., 
p. 419, June 13th, 1927. 
Urodynamis taitensis philetes A. Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. XXX., p. 1, Jan. 22nd, 1917 : 
Otago Prov., New Zealand. 
Urodynamis taite)isis belli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXIX., p. 24, Nov. 30th, 1918 : 
Norfolk Island. 
Distribution. New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Fiji and Society Islands. 
Adult male. Crown of the head, occiput, nape, hind-neck and fore-head blackish-brown, shafts 
of all the feathers white at the base and with the terminal two-thirds brownish-buff ; 
lores blackish ; eyebrow white, mixed with reddish-buff ; sides of the face, ear-coverts and 
cheeks blackish-brown with buff shaft-stripes ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser, 
median and greater wing-coverts and primary-quills dark chocolate-brown, barred with 
deep brownish-buff ; tail-feathers similar in colour and markings to the back but each 
feather widely tipped with white ; chin, throat, sides of the neck and fore-neck white, 
each feather with a wedge-shaped mark of blackish-brown ; chest, breast, abdomen and 
sides of the body pure white, with a long broad streak of blackish-brown at the end of each 
feather; flanks and thighs white with broad V-shaped markings of dark umber-brown ; 
under tail-coverts white barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rich creamy- 
buff ; quills below ash-brown, widely barred with creamy-white, tinged with rufous ; upper 
mandible dark grey, lower light grey, eyes dark brownish-yellow, feet dark yellowish- 
green. Total length 420 mm. : culmen 25, wing 202, tail 228, tarsus 34. Figured. 
Collected at Watermill Creek, Norfolk Island, on the 2nd of November, 1912. 
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