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Show 1873.] OF THK ETHIOPIAN REGION. 595 Key to the species. a. Abdomen whitish. a'. Above brown: an ashy-grey crest: wings spotted with white 1. glandarius. b'. Above blackish: crest uniform with back: wings unspotted. a". Throat white, conspicuously streaked with black 2. cafer. b". Throat white, like the breast 3. jacobinus. b. Abdomen black 4. serratus. 1. COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. Cuculus glandarius, Linn. S. N. i. p. 169 (1766). Bee Cuckoo, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v. App. p. 179 (1790). Coccyzus glandarius, Riipp. N. W . Vog. p. 62 (1835) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 96(1845). Cuculus phaiopterus, Riipp. in Mus. Lugd. (teste Schlegel: = juv.). Oxylophus glandarius, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 219 ; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 188 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 265 ; Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 25 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1867). Coccystes glandarius, Heugl.Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); id. J. f.O. 1862, p. 34 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 44 (1862) ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 518 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 220 (1870) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 485 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 12 (187J) ; Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 786 (1871); Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 162 (1872) ; Gurney, ed. Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 225 (1872). Adult male. Above brown, somewhat inclining to olive-brown, the scapulars slightly, the wing-coverts and inner secondaries more conspicuously tipped with whitish ; quills darker brown above, the inner primaries narrowly edged with whitish at the tips, the inner face of the quills whitish ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown like the back, the outermost of the latter white on the outer web, the inner ones tipped with white; tail brown, broadly tipped with white; crown of the head and crest bluish grey, with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; sides of the face and hind neck rather darker brown, the ear-coverts washed with grey ; throat and chest yellowish white, the former somewhat tinged with greyish, with indistinct hair-like blackish shaft-lines ; rest of under surface purer white, the flanks shaded with greyish ; under wing-coverts yellowish, the outer ones and the axillaries white, the latter somewhat shaded with ashy ; bill brown, yellowish at base of lower mandible, feet bluish, shaded with brown ; iris pale brown. Total length 15 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 8*15, tail 9, tarsus 1*3. Adult female. Generally similar to the male, but having a faint rufous tinge on the inner webs of the primaries. Young. Very different from the adult, and looking like another species. Above dark brown, the head and crest black ; the wing-coverts scantily spotted with white ; primaries rufous, the tips dusky brown, tipped with white, the first two primaries also brown on the outer web, the inner secondaries uniform with the back, and tipped with white; the external upper tail-coverts white on the 38* |