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PHEASANT COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus Phasianus.) 



P. rufo t jlavo nigroque variegatus : capite, cotto, gula, jugulo, 



pectore, dorso abdomineque nigris ; cauda nigra supra jasciis 



transversis albidis, interruptis, punctatis. 

 Coucal, variegated with yellow, black, and rufous : head, neck, 



throat, breast, back, and belly, black; tail black above, with 



transverse interrupted punctated bands. 

 Cuculus Phasianus. Lath. Gen. Sup. II. 30. 4. 

 Pheasant Cuckow. Lath. Sup. II. 137. 9 

 Polophilus Phasianus. Leach. Zool. Misc. 1. 116. 46. 



THIS beautiful species is an inhabitant of New 

 Holland, and is about seventeen inches in length : 

 the beak, head, neck, and all the under part of a 

 blackish colour : the whole of the back and wings 

 varied with rufous, yellow, brown, and black : 

 the tail is long, and barred with the same colour : 

 legs dusky black : the toes, like the rest of the 

 genus, having the hind claws long. 



It is called in New Holland the Pheasant 

 Cue/cow. 



