_Cuculus horsfieldi_ Moore, in Moore and Horsfield, Cat. Birds Mus.
Hon. East-India Co., 2, 1856-58 (1857), p. 703. (Type locality,
Java.)
_Cuculus striatus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1872, pp. 89, 100 (Pelew); Finsch. Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875,
pp. 4, 12 (Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 63
(Pelew).
_Cuculus intermedius_ Wiglesworth. Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 10 (Pelew).
_Cuculus optatus optatus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 57 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 181
(Palau).
_Cuculus saturatus horsfieldi_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 201 (Babelthuap, Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 302 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in eastern Asia and Japan. Winters
south to India, Malaysia, and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Palau
Islands--Babelthuap, Koror.
_Remarks._--The Oriental Cuckoo reaches the Palau Islands as a winter
visitor. On November 11 and 25 of 1931, Coultas obtained four immature
birds at Palau near taro swamps. The natives told him that the cuckoo
visited the islands each year from December to June. On September 21 at
Angaur the NAMRU2 party saw one bird which may have been this cuckoo.
=Eudynamis taitensis= (Sparrman)