GREEN COUCAL. 55 



called by the Arabs, Houhou, from repeating that 

 word several times together ; its principal food is 

 locusts. The male and female are always toge- 

 ther, but it is very rare that more than two are 

 seen at one time ; they mostly frequent low bushes 

 near running water, being seldom seen on large 

 trees, or on the ground. 



GREEN COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus viridis.) 



P. mridi-nigr leans f alls rubrojuscis, cauda nigra, ungue postice 



interiore recto subulato. 

 Blackish green Coucal, with reddish brown wings, tail black, 



hinder interior claw awl-shaped and straight. 

 Cuculus JEgyptius. y. Lath. 2nd. Orn. 1. 213. 1 7. 

 ^Egyptian Cuckovv. Lath. Syn. 2. 523. 16. b. 

 Coucou vert d'Antigue. Son. Voy. 121. 80. 



OF this species, which is described by Sonnerat, 

 the head, neck, breast, and belly are of a very dull 

 green : wings of a deep red brown : the feathers 

 in general hard and stiff; the webs loose, and each 

 of the beards furnished with shorter ones : irides 

 black : eyelids furnished with hairs like eyelashes : 

 legs black ; the inner hind claw more slender than 

 the rest, very long and straight: tail long and 

 black : beak likewise black : this species is very 

 like P. -ZEgyptius, but it is a native of Antigua. 



