182 RUFOUS-BREASTED CUCKOO. 



India : both, however, agree in the length of the 

 wings and the peculiar colour and markings of the 

 tail, so that we have but little doubt that they are of 

 one species ; although, in the young bird, the rufous 

 colour of the breast, and the bands on the body, are 

 not so dark as in the supposed adult from India 

 The vent and under tail-covers are light tuff-colour 



LE VAILLANT'S CUCKOO. 



OocylopJius Vaillanti, SWAINS. 



Head crested with pointed feathers ; plumage above black, 

 glossed with green ; band at the base of the quills, end of 

 the tail, and under parts of the body, white ; throat striped 

 with black. 



Variete du Coucou Edolio, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. iv. pi. 209. 

 Coccyzus Vaillantii, Zool. III. 2d series, pi. 13. 



HAVING already figured and endeavoured to clear 

 up the systematic history of this elegant species, 

 which seems common both to Western Africa and 

 Abyssinia *, our present notice may be short, parti- 

 cularly as w r e have recently adverted more parti- 

 cularly to those characters which separate it from 

 the old genus Coccyzus. 



* Salt's Travels, App. iv. page 46. 



