SENEGAL COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus senegalensis.) 



P. cauda cuneiformi, corpore griseo subtus albo,pileo rectricibusque 



nigricantibus. 

 Coucal with a wedge-shaped tail; body beneath of a greyish 



white; upper part of the head, neck, and tail-feathers 



blackish. 

 Cuculus senegalensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 169. 6. Gmel, Syst. 



Nat. 1. 412. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 213. 19. 

 Coucou de Senegal. Buff. PI. Enl. 332. 

 Rufalbin. Buff. 6. 370. 

 Strait-heeled Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 525. 18. 



THIS bird is about fifteen inches in length : beak 

 black, fifteen lines long : upper part of the head 

 and neck covered with black feathers that are 

 darkest in the middle : prevailing colour above of 

 a rufous brown, beneath dirty white : cheeks, 

 throat, fore part and sides of the neck, dirty white^ 

 with the shafts brightest : under parts of the breast 

 dirty white, with obscure transverse striae : rump 

 and upper tail-coverts brown, with deep brown 

 transverse striae : under tail- coverts dirty white, 

 the striae rather obscure : quills rufous, with 

 brownish tips : tail eight inches long, wedge- 

 shaped, and black : legs and claws greyish brown. 



This species inhabits Senegal, and is rather 

 larger than Cuculus canorus. 



