TOLOU COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus Tolu.) 



P. cauda cuneiformi, corpore viresccnte-atro, alis castaneis, capite 



collo dorsoque antice nigricantibus rufo striatis. 

 Coucal with a dark green body; cliesnut wings ; head, neck, and 



anterior part of the back blackish with rufous striae; tail 



wedge-shaped. 

 Cuculus Tolu. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1, 422. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



213. 18. 



Cuculus madagascariensis. Bris. 4. 138. 10. 13. 2. 

 Coucou de Madagascar. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 36Q. 17. 



Buff". PI. Enl. 295. 1. 



Long-heeled Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 524. 17. 

 Le Coucal noiron. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr* 5. 220. 



LARGER than a Blackbird: length fourteen 

 inches and a quarter : beak brown, an inch and a 

 quarter in length : head, throat, hind part of the 

 neck, and upper part of the back, covered with 

 long, narrow stiff feathers, of a blackish colour, 

 with a reddish white stripe down the sliaft ; those 

 on the throat, fore part of the neck, and breast, 

 the same, but have only a longitudinal stripe on 

 each side : lower part of the breast dirty white : 

 lower part of the back, belly, sides, rump, thighs, 

 and tail- co verts greenish black : scapulars and 

 wing-coverts chesnut, shafts of each purplish ; 

 quill-feathers chesnut, with brown tips ; tail above 

 eight inches long; blackish green above, and 

 black beneath, wedge-shaped; legs and claws 

 black: the claw of the inner toe above' three 

 quarters of an inch long. Found at Madagascar, 

 where it is called Tolou. 



