scientific name for a genusof birds belonging to the Cuculidae, or Cuckoos (fromGrk. skuthrowpos = angry-looking). The only speciesknown is peculiar to Australia, where it is called the Channel-Bill, a name given by Latham (`General Historyof Birds,' vol. ii.). White (1790) calls it the AnomalousHornbill (`Journal 1790,' pl. at p. 142).