. The birds of South Africa. Birds. CUCULIDS] CHRYSOCOCCYX 189 egg, beautifully transparent, showing the yolk through the shell. On blowing this egg we found that the yolk was of a much deeper shade of orange than that of the ; 466. Chrysococcyx cupreus. Didric Cuckoo. Cuculus cupreus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 40 (1783); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 591 ; Buchleij, Ibis, 1874, p. 367 [Bamangwato] ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83 [near Durban]; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 199. Cuculus auratus, Omel. Si/st. Nat. i, p. 421 (1788) ; Burcliell, Travels, i, pp. 464, 501 (1822) ; Grill, K. Vet. Al
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. CUCULIDS] CHRYSOCOCCYX 189 egg, beautifully transparent, showing the yolk through the shell. On blowing this egg we found that the yolk was of a much deeper shade of orange than that of the ; 466. Chrysococcyx cupreus. Didric Cuckoo. Cuculus cupreus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 40 (1783); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 591 ; Buchleij, Ibis, 1874, p. 367 [Bamangwato] ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83 [near Durban]; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 199. Cuculus auratus, Omel. Si/st. Nat. i, p. 421 (1788) ; Burcliell, Travels, i, pp. 464, 501 (1822) ; Grill, K. Vet. Alcad. Hamdl. ii, no. 10, p. 43, (1858) [Oudtshoorn]. Le Coucou didric, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v, p. 46, pis. 210-211 (1806). Chrysococcyx auratus, Ourneij, Ibis, 1859, p. 247 [Natal]; 1868, p. 467 [Potchefstroom]. Chalcites auratus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 250 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 163. Chrysococcyx oupreus, Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. pp. 153, 809 (1875-84) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 407, 1879, p. 297, 1880, p. 262, 1882, p. 245,' 1884, p. 224, 1885, p. 343, 1886, p. 291 [Potchef- stroom and Umfuli river]; Dates, Matabeleland, p. 305 (1881) ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 328 [Kroonstad]; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 285 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 124 (1896) ; Sharpc, Ibis, 1897, p. 499 [Zululand] ; Woodivard Bros. Natal B. p. 119 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 109 [Zambesi]; Marshall, ibid. p. 252 [Mashona- land] ; Haac/ner, Ibis, 1901, pp. 16, 18 [Pretoria Dist.]; Ivy, ibid, p. 26 [Bloemfontein].. Pig. 63.—Chrysococcyx cupreus. x \. Description. Adtdt male.—General colour above metallic-green, with coppery and blue reflections; a streak in the middle of the crown, a spot in front of the eye, and another behind the eye above the ear-coverts, and some of the inner coverts white; primary quills dusky, with white bars on the inner webs, most of the secondaries also, with white spots along both webs; central pair of tail-feathers green and immaculate, lateral pairs with wh
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