. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. I 6. cucuLUs. 241 no white featliors on the fore part of the crown or uiipe. «*. Larger: wiug more thau O'o inches intenncdim, p. 252. //'. ymaller: wing nevermore tlian (j'5 inches polwcephalus, p. 2o5. h\ With the lower throat and crop chest- nut. c'. Paler: with grey on the chin and upper throat suUtarms, p. 258. '/'. Darker: throat chestnut, with only a little gi'ey on the base of the chin ;/abonensis, p. 259. h'. Breast uniform, not barred with white and black. c". General plumage black , p. 260. d". Upper parts ashy brow
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. I 6. cucuLUs. 241 no white featliors on the fore part of the crown or uiipe. «*. Larger: wiug more thau O'o inches intenncdim, p. 252. //'. ymaller: wing nevermore tlian (j'5 inches polwcephalus, p. 2o5. h\ With the lower throat and crop chest- nut. c'. Paler: with grey on the chin and upper throat suUtarms, p. 258. '/'. Darker: throat chestnut, with only a little gi'ey on the base of the chin ;/abonensis, p. 259. h'. Breast uniform, not barred with white and black. c". General plumage black , p. 260. d". Upper parts ashy brown: uuderparts uniform stone-colour pallidus, p. 261. Upper parts more or less rufous; under siu-- face of quills with rufous bars. (•'. Above rufous, broadly ban-ed with bronze; beneath white, narrowly barred with brown- ish black sonnerati, p. 262. d'. Above rufous, with black or dusky mai'kings. (•'. Crown and lower back not regularly barred with black. c". Larger: wing over 7 inches cauorua juv., p. 247. d'". Smaller : wing not 6 inches poliocepkalus jay., f. Cro-mi and lower back regularly banded [p. 256. with black. [p. 256. e". Smaller: wing not 6 inches poUocephulm juv., /'". Larger: wing over 6'5 inches intermedins juv., [p. 254. 1. Cuculns micropterus. Cuculus micropterus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137; Hod/js. Icon. ined. in Bibl. Sac. Zool ii. p. 205 (no. 507); id. in Graijs Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844); Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 902 (1842), xiv. p. 204, XV. p. 18 (1846) : id. Ibis, 1862, p. 387: Jerd. B. t. c. p. 255; David i^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 64 (1877); Davidson ^ Wenden, S/r. F. vii. p. 79 (1878) ; Ball, t. c. p. 207; Cripps, t. c. p. 264; Hume, Sir. F. viii. pp. 53, 88 (1879); Vidal, Str. F. \x. p. 55 (1880); Bingham, t. c. p. 167; Hume, t. c. p. 248; Bufler, p. 388; Legge, B. Ceylon, i. p. 228 (1880); Salvad. Om. Papua»ia, i. p. 330 (1880); Kelham, Ibis, 1881. p. 390; Davison, Str. F. X. p. (1881); Oates, Handb. B. Bri
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