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Touraco-Bird, which ranks in the genus Cuculus, 

 determined me to station it as a species of Cuckow. 

 Mr. Isert's description, however, being drawn up 

 from the living bird, it is but just to suppose his 

 statement of this particular to be accurate ; though, 

 as Mr. Latham has well observed, the Touraco- 

 Bird possessing the power of placing the toes at 

 pleasure either in a scansorial or ambulatorial di- 

 rection, this particular still seems in some mea- 

 sure uncertain. Should future observations prove 

 that the feet are really scansorial in the present 

 bird, it may either be transferred to the genus 

 Cuculus, or be permitted to form a separate genus 

 among the tribe of Picae scansorise. 



V. VIII. P. I. 



