CLIMBERS. '^^^ 



lioUow trees, and do not lay their eggs in strange nests ; a fact, so far as 

 regards those species whose mode of breeding is known, that cannot be 

 denied. , 



We may separate from them an American species with a long bill, that 

 is only curved near the tip*. 



M. Le Vaillant has already, and very properly, separated from the other 



Cuckoos, tJic 



Centropus, Illig. 



Or the Coucalsf , species of Africa and India, in which the thumb nail 

 is long,' straight, and pointed, as in the Larks. Those which are known 

 belong to the eastern continent. They also build in hoUow trees J. 



We should also distinguish with that naturalist, the 



CouROLs§, or VouROUDRious of Madagascar. 



In whose thick, pointed, straight and compressed bill, which is but 

 slicrhtly arcuated at the point of its upper mandible, the nostrils are pierced 

 obliuuely in the middle of each side. Their tail is composed of twelve 

 puiUs. They live in the woods, and build like the precedmg birds. 

 They are said to be mostly frugivorousl). 



Indicator, Vaill. ' 



The Indicators are also inhabitants of Africa, and, as they feed on 

 honey, have become celebrated for guiding the natives to the retreats of 

 the wUd bees, which they seek with loud cries. Then' bill is short, high, 

 and nearly conical, like that of the Finch. Their tail of twelve quills is 

 at once slightly cuneiform, and partly forked. Their singularly hard skin 

 shields them from the stings of the bees, which, being continually perse- 

 cuted, sometiiues kill them by attacking their eyes**. The 



BARBACOUsff, Vaill. 

 Have a conical, elongated bill, but little compressed, and slightly arcu- 

 ated at the end, whose base is furnished with slender feathers or stiff- 

 hairs, which ally them to the BarbetslJiJ. 



• Cue. vetula, Enl. 772. It is upon this distinction that Vieill. hns founded Lis 

 c-cmis Saurotiieka, Galer. 38. . 



t Coucal, compounded of Cuckoo and Lark (Coc. and Alonette) ; r.^irop^., feet 

 wi h spurs. Vie"ill. has changed it into Corydonie and Leach m.o Podophilus 



Enl. 824, or C babutus, Horsf. i^^.'-mgro-rufus, Nob. Vaill Afr. 220 ;-«,/« Enl. 

 295; Vaill. 2\<i;~hengalenns, Brown, IW. XUU-rvfinus, Nob^VailL 221;-«/A.o;;., 

 Nob. Vaill. 222;— gigas, Nob. Vaill. 22Z-—atndbus, Voy. tie la Coq. /oo . 6\. 



§ Courol, from Cuchoo and Roller. From this division ^ leill. has made his genus 

 Leptosomus, Gal. 29. „. , „ , j rco .i,„ r„,,,,io 



II Cuculu!< afcr, Enl. 387, the male, whose bill is badly dra^ra, and 588, the fc.nale, 

 where it is better, Vaill. 220, 227. ,.,.,,„< „• ,■ Tr.,i 



•» Cuculus indicator, Vaill. Afr. 241;—«/«or, Nob. Jd. 2\;-albirostns, T. Col. 

 367. Vieill. has adopted this name and gemus GaL4D. 



t+ Darbncou, composed of harbet and cuckoo. From it \ leiU. has made his genus 



MONASIA, Gal. 36. „ , t^ i ene ,i r«l 



t: Cuculus tranquUlus, Enl. 512; Spix, 41, 2;-C. tcnehrosus, Enl 505 and Col. 

 .•523, 2;— C. rufalbiims,^. Col. 323;— JV/o"asajt>e«o«a<a, VieiU. Gal. 36, or Bacco aUi- 



'"n.'b.^^ We should also observe, that the Cue. paradisaus, Briss. IV, pi. xiv, A, 1, 

 is the Drovgo da Paradis {Lamusm,.ilaharicus), and that the Cue. mnensts, Id. lb. A, J, 



