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Show 1873.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 581 Uebers. p. 96 (1845); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 266 (1857) ; Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 26; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 45 (1868); Finsch, Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 286 (1870); Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 312 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 12 (1871); Gurney, Ibis, 1871, p. 103; Heugl. Orn. N . O. Afr. p. 780 (1872); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 162 (1872) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 67; Anderss. B. Damara Land, ed. Gurney, p. 227 (1872). Coucou vulgaire d'Europe, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. pl. 202, 203 (1806) ; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 47(1858). Cuculus gularis, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246. Coucou du Cap de Bonne EspSrance, Buff. Pl. Enl. vi. pl. 390, et Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 353. Cuculus capensis, Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 90 (1776); Gm. S. N. i. p. 410 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 208 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. pt. i. p. 85 (1815) ; Cass. Proc. Phil. Acad. .1864, p. 243. Cape-Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 513 (1782). Adult male. Above ashy grey, much darker on the back, where it is glossed slightly with greenish; the head, rump, and upper tail-coverts much paler grey; wing-coverts dark grey, with scarcely any greenish gloss ; quills brownish, the secondaries slightly glossed with greenish in some lights, the inner web broadly and numerously barred with white, these white bars, however, not occupying more than two thirds of the quill; tail blackish, tipped with white, the centre feathers showing an indication of a tiny white spot along the shaft, a little plainer on the three outer ones, becoming larger towards the outermost, the four external feathers also minutely spotted with white on the inner web, these also increasing in size towards the outer feather, at the base of which they form irregular bars; sides of the face, entire throat, and fore neck pale blue-grey; rest of the under surface of the body white, transversely barred with rather narrow lines of greyish black; vent and under tail-coverts whiter, indistinctly barred with blackish, the bars on the longer tail-coverts broader, but further apart; under wing-coverts white, shading into greyish on the edge of the wing and lower coverts ; bill horn-black, with a little yellow at the gape and on the base of the lower mandible; feet yellow, nails brownish; iris and eyelid yellow. Total length 13 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 8 8, tail 7*5, tarsus 0*9. Hab. N.E. A F R I C A : Egypt (G. E. Shelley); Bogos Land (Blanford, Jesse, Esler); Lower Nubia, in March (Hartmann); New Dongola, in September; Old Dongola, in April; N. Senaar, in May (von Heuglin). W . A F R I C A : Fantee (Swanzy, Mus. Brit.) ; Connor's Hill, Cape Coast, November 2nd, 1870 (Ussher) ; St. Thomas (Weiss). S.W. A F R I C A : Otjimbinque, Damara Land, to m e to be referable to the hepatic phase of C. canorus, of which I have a Damara specimen in the same plumage; and Levaillant's suggestion that it is a young C. solitarius will not stand the comparison of specimens. I therefore add its synonymy to C. canorus. |