NORTHERN STRIPED CUCKOO 



brown; crest glossy blue-black; remainder of 

 upper parts olive and purplish brown, glossed 

 with bronze, green and purple; tail dark olive 

 green, glossed with purple; general color of 

 under parts light brownish, darker and faintly 

 cross-barred on throat, chest and sides of neck 

 fading to buffy white on breast and deepening 

 to chestnut on thighs; a transverse row of 

 black spots form a band across the lower chest. 

 Iris and bare skin around eye, red; bill yellow- 

 ish green. 



This large, crested, long-tailed, ground-living 

 forest bird is rare, or at least seldom seen. 

 "Colon; Lion Hill". (Ridgway.) 



6. Tapera nsevia excellens (Sclater) 

 Northern Striped Cuckoo. "Tres Pesos" 



Sexes alike. Length, about 279 mm. (n.oo 

 in.); tail, about 163 mm. (6.40 in.). Head and 

 crest reddish brown streaked with black; back, 

 scapulars and wing coverts buffy brown, coarsely 

 streaked with black; a streak of buffy white 

 through the eye; tail grayish brown, graduated, 

 streaked with black edged and tipped with 

 reddish buff; lower parts murky dull white, 

 darkening to buff on throat, chest, thighs and 

 lower tail coverts. 



A bird of the savannas and of the open, bushy 

 country. It is called by the Panamanians "Tres 

 pesos" on account of its characteristic slow, 

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