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Show 624 MR. S H A R P E O N ETHIOPIAN cucuLiD^E. [June 1 7, I have reproduced Dr. Hartlaub's description, never having seen this bird myself. It is evidently very close to O. nigro-rufus, and may yet prove identical. Comparing my specimen of the latter with the original description of C. grillii, the only differences exhibited are the absence of all bars on the greater wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and central tail-feathers in C. grillii. 8. CENTROPUS TOULOU. Le Coucou de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 138, pl. xiii. fig. 2, 1760. Cuculus toulou, Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 90 (1776). Long-heeled Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 524 (1762). Coucou de Madagascar appele Toulou, Montb. Pl. Enl. vi. pl. 295 (1783). Cuculus melanorhynchus, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 18 (1783). Cuculus tolu, Gm. S. N. i. p. 422 (1788, ex Montb.). Polophilus toulu, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 52 (1815). Corydonix tolu, Vieill. N. Diet, xxxiv. p. 295 (1819). Centropus tolu, Kuhl & Swind., Buff. & Daub. Fig. Av. Nom. syst. p. 6, no. 295 (1820); Less. Traite', p. 136 (1831): Bp. Consp. i. p. 167 (1850); Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 60 (1861) ; Roch & E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 166 ; E. Newt. I. c. p. 452 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 164 ; A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 824. Centropus affinis, Less. Traite, p. 136 (1831). Centropus melanorhynchus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 455(1846). Centropus superciliosus, Hartlaub, Faun. Mad. p. 60(1861). Corydonyx melanorhynchus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heine, Th. iv. p. 108 (1862). Centropus toulou, Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. (1864), p. 243; Grav, Gen. B. ii. p. 214(1870). Centropus madagascariensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 65 (1864); id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424 ; id. & Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. p. 57 (1868). Centropus lafresnayanus, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. ii. Bull. p. 25, pl. 2 (1866) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 214 (1870). Adult male. Above and below black, with a bluish green gloss, the shafts stiff and glossy black; upper tail-coverts more decidedly glossed with greenish; tail black, with an oily green gloss ; wings brilliant chestnut, tips of primaries and the inner secondaries shining olive-brown; bill black; feet greyish ; iris red. Total length 16 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 5*9, tail 9*7, tarsus 1*55. Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. Total length 16*5 inches, culmen 1*5, wing 6*5, tail 10*3, tarsus 1*6. Hab. Madagascar. |