J80 LINEATED CUCKOO. 



mage the whole of the chin, throat, and breast, 

 which are plain cinereous on the adult, in this are 

 banded precisely like the body upon a cream-coloured 

 white ground. There is the difference of about half 

 an inch in the length of the wings, and the other 

 parts are proportionably less. 



Total length, 12 \ inches; bill, from the gape, 

 l T 2 o ; ditto, from the front, -f^ ; wings, 8^; tail> 

 beyond, 2^ ; ditto, from the base, 7i ; tarsus, ^ 



AFRICAN BLACK CUCKOO. 



Cuculus nigricans, SWAIVS. 



Above and beneath black, glossed with blue ; quills internally 

 white, with blackish bands ; tips of the lateral tail-feathers 

 whitish ; bill and legs black. 



Cuculus nigricans, Zool. III. 2d series. 



OF this very rare Senegal bird, we have never seen 

 any other specimen than that figured in the Zoolo* 

 gical Illustrations. Its lengthened pointed wings, 

 of which the third quill is much the longest, and the 

 unusual breadth of its bill (greater even than in 

 the common Cuckoo), at once show that it strictly 

 belongs to the present genus, even as now restricted ; 

 while the black and glossy plumage evinces the close 

 affinity between this group and Qxylophus. 



