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Coccyzus cceruleus. — The Blue Cuckoo. 
Plate XLII. fig. 6. 
The whole plumage iridescent Antwerp-blue, with purple 
and green reflection ; eyes orange, surrounded by a patch of the 
same colour; bill black; legs dusky. 
Genus 5.—CENTRO PUS.— Illiger. 
Generic Character. —Bill thick, strong, compressed, deeper 
than broad; upper mandible carinated, and arched towards the 
point, nostrils basal, lateral, and cleft diagonally; legs long, 
strong; tarsus somewhat longer than the exterior toe, the two 
anterior ones adhering at their base; internal hind toe with a 
long subulate sharp claw. 
Centropus phasianus. — The Pheasant Centropus, or Coucal. 
Plate LI. fig. 3. 
Back and wings mottled with pale orange, brown, and black ; 
bill, head, neck, and abdomen, blackish-brown; tail deep black, 
long, with transverse bars of iridescent-black. Seventeen inches 
long. Inhabits New Holland. 
Genus 6.—PHCENICOPHOUS.— Vieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill longer than the head, strong, thick, 
rounded, smooth, arcuated, the base furnished with divergent 
nuchal bristles; nostrils linear and lateral, remote from the 
base; orbits naked, papillose ; tarsus longer than the external 
toe •, wings short. 
Phocnicophous leucogaster. — The Tricoloured Malcoha. 
Plate L. fig. 7. 
Greenish-black, abdominal and tail feathers margined with 
white; throat and neck sea-green; bottom of cheeks white; and 
a patch of orange round the eyes. Nine inches long. Inhabits 
Africa. 
Genus 7—LEPTOSOMUS. — Vieillot. 
Generic Character .—Bill laterally compressed, and nearly 
triangular ; keel prominent; upper mandible slightly bent, the 
lower one straight; nostrils placed in the middle of the mandi¬ 
ble, partly closed by an elongation of the horny substance; tar- 
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