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Show 1873.] OF T H E ETHIOPIAN REGION. 591 9. CUCULUS CUPREUS. Le Coucou vert-dor 6.et blanc,Buii. Hist. Nat. Ois.vi. p. 385(1779). Coucou vert du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Montb. Pl. Enl. vi. pl. 657 (c. 1780). Gilded Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2. p. 527 (1782). Cuculus cupreus, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 40 (1783) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847); Schl. Mus. P. B., Cuculi, p. 31 (1864). Cuculus auratus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 421 (1788, ex Lath.) ; Bonn. et Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1337 (1823); Thienem. Abbild. Vogeleiern. t. xv. fig. 4 (1845-56); Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 43 (1858). Le Coucou Didric, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v.p.46,pls. 210, 211 (1806). Lampromorpha chalcopepla, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 92. Chalcites auratus, Less. Traite, p. 152(1831); Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 187 (1837) ; Mont. Ibis, 1862, p. 337; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 250 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 163. Cuculus chalcopeplus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847). Chrysococcyx auratus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 105 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 190 (1857); Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 247; Mont. P.Z.S. 1865, p. 94 ; Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 84 (1865) ; Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 826; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. i. p. 143 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 467; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 58. Chrysococcyx cupreus, Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 26; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 522 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss. p. 313 (1870); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 145; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 13 (1871); id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 605; Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 776 (1871); Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 163 (1872); Gurnev ed. Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p*. 228 (1872). Lamprococcyx cupreus, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 11(1862). Lamprococcyx chrysochlorus, iid. ut supra. Lamprococcyx chrysites, Heine, J. f. O. 1863, p. 350. Chalcites cupreus, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 327. Young.-Head uniform cinnamon-rufous, the sides of the neck scantily marked with metallic green, with a broad streak of white under the eye; upper surface of body dull metallic green, with a slight coppery appearance on the interscapulary region, with broad cross bars of pale cinnamon ; quills deep cinnamon, barred with dull metallic green, the subterminal spot very large; tail also deep cinnamon with metallic green cross bars, the outermost feathers with four rounded spots of white on the outer web and two on the inner, one being terminal, the next feather with indications of white spots on the two apical bars of the inner web ; under surface of body dull white, the throat washed with rufous and spotted with dull metallic green, these spots becoming fewer and smaller on the breast, but taking the form of bars on the sides of body and under tail-coverts ; bill orange-brown. The description of the young is taken from a specimen given to me by Mr. Monteiro, who obtained it in Angola. Governor Ussher, when in Fantee, likewise obtained a series of young birds, from which it would appear that the next stage is gained partly by a moult and partly by a change of feather, in this wise:-The metallic green of |