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LATHAMIAN COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus Lathami.) 



Polophilus Lathami. Leach. Zool. Mis. i. 127. 56.* 



Lathamian Coucal. Leach. Zool. Mis. 1. 127. 



P. capite, cotto, gula, jugulo, pectore, abdomine jemoribusque 

 nigris albido-sparsis ; dorso alisque rufescentibus, tectricibus 

 fasciis obscuris, remigibus maculis distinctis nigris; cauda 

 nigra lineis transversis subinterruptis, albidis. 



Coucal, with the head, neck, throat, breast, belly, and thighs 

 black, sprinkled with whitish ; back and wings reddish, wing- 

 coverts obscurely banded ; wing- quills distinctly spotted with 

 black ; tail black, with narrow, transverse, somewhat inter- 

 rupted, whitish bands. 



. THE only specimen of this species that has oc- 

 curred is preserved in the British Museum, and is 

 figured and described in the Zoological Miscel* 

 lany. Its native place unknown. 



