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Show 618 MR. R. n. SHARPE ON T H E CUCULID.E [June 17, Straight-heeled Cuckow, Lath. /. c. p. 525 (1782). Cuculus eegyptius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 420 (1788, ex Lath.) ; Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 337. Le Coucal houhou male, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. p. 72, pl. 219 (1806); Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 48 (1858). Centropus eegyptius, Audouin, Expl. somm. Pl. d'Ois. Savign. p. 334, pl. iv. fig. 1 (1810); Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 104 (1862, pt.) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 212 (1870); Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 50; id. B. "of Egypt, p. 164, pl. vi. (1872). Polophilus eegyptius, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. pt. I, p. 54 (1815). Centropus senegalensis, Kuhl & Swind., Buff. & Daub., Fig. Av. Nom. syst. p. 6, no. 332 (1820) ; Less. Traite', p. 137(1831); Riipp. N . W . Vog. p. 55 (1835-40) ; Sw. B . W . Afr. ii. p. 185, pl. xx (1857); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 455 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 106 (1850) ; Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 126; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 187(1857); Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 49 ; Gurney, I. c. p. 153; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 105 (1862); Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 326 ; Sperling, Ibis, 1868, p. 290; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 193; Grav, Handl. B. ii. p. 212 (1870); Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 796 (1870); Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 526 (1870); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 261 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 14(1871); Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 224 (1872) ; Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 286. 'Corydonixpyrrholeucus,Yieil\.&Ouci.(ial.Ois.i.ot. 2, p.41 (1825). Corydonix senegalensis, iid. ut supra, pl. xlvi. (1825). Centropus burchelli, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 321 (c. 1837) ; Grav, Gen. B. ii. p. 455(1846); Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein.Th.ii. p. 105 (1862); Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 48 (1858); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 246 (1867); Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 213 (1870). Centropus houhou, Dubois, Orn. Gal. p. 17, pl. 12(1839). Centropus capensis, Verr. in Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 5 (1854). Centropus monachus (pt.), Schl. Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 72 (1864). Head dull black, with a greenish tinge when viewed from the light, the shafts glossy black ; interscapulary region, scapulars, and wing-coverts dull brownish rufous, the shafts glossy chestnut, greater coverts and quills bright rufous, with dusky tips, the inner secondaries dull-brownish rufous with au olivaceous gloss; lower back and rump dusky, minutely barred with dull ochre; upper tail-coverts and tail dull greenish, inclining to oily green, the former generally with obsolete bars of ochre ; feathers under the eye and ear-coverts black, like the head; entire sides of face and neck, as well as the under surface of body, more or less deep ochre inclining to white on the centre of abdomen, the shafts glossy fulvous, especially distinct on the throat and sides of neck, the flanks with remains of dusky cross bars ; under wing-coverts pale buff, inner surface of wing dull rufous ; bill and feet black. Young. More dingy above and paler below than the adult; head dull brownish; upper surface barred across with dusky black, with remains of dusky bars on the sides of the breast and flanks; upper tail-coverts and tail barred more or less distinctly with pale ochre; beak horn-brown, the lower mandible yellowish. |