LONG-TAILED CUCKOO. 
Immature male. Top of the head, nape and hind-neck brownish-black, each feather with a 
drop-like marking of light huff ; back, mantle, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser, 
median and greater wing-coverts dull brownish-black, each feather with a concealed bar of 
pale buff and with a large round spot of w’hitish-buff near the extremity of each feather; 
primary-quills and tail-feathers dark brownish-black, barred with yellowish-buff; lores 
and eyebrow rich yellowish-buff, mixed with blackish; ear-coverts blackish-brown, 
shafts buff ; a line of black from the angle of the mouth dowrn the sides of the neck and 
another bordering the throat; chin and throat rich golden-buff, faintly tipped with black; 
sides of neck, fore-neck, chest, breast, abdomen, sides of the body, flanks and thighs 
golden-buff with a broad band of black down the shafts ; under tail-coverts golden-buff, 
barred with blackish-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rich golden-buff; quills 
below greyish-ash, barred with yellowish-buff ; upper mandible dark grey, lower light 
grey, eyes greenish-grey, feet light green, tinged with yellow’. Total length 365 mm.: 
culmen 20, wing 179, tail 202, tarsus 35. Figured. Collected on Norfolk Island on 
the 17th of March, 1913. 
The egg is deposited in another bird’s nest. 
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