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ORIENTAL CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Orientalis.) 



C. cauda rotundata, corpore nigro-virente nitente ; rostrofusco. 

 Cuckow, with a rounded tail, black body, with a green gloss ; 



beak fuscous. 

 Cuculus Orientalis. Lin. Syst. Nat. I. l68. 2. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 410. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.210. 10. 

 Cuculus Indicus niger. Bris. 4. 142. 10. 1. 

 Le Coukeel. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 383. 1. 

 Coucou noirdes Indes. Buff. PI. Enl. 2/4. 1. 

 Eastern black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 518. 10. 

 /3. cceruleo-nigricante nitens, remige extime breviore. 

 Of a shining blue-black, the outward quill very short. 

 Cuculus Orientalis /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 210. 1O. 

 Le Coukeel. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 383. 2. 

 Eastern Black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 518. 10. A. 

 y. corpora nigro nitido y rostrojftavo. 

 Body of a shining black, and with a yellow beak. 



OF this species there are several varieties, the 

 first of which is the size of a Pigeon : length about 

 sixteen inches : beak grey-brown : plumage nearly 

 black, with a green gloss, which, in some parts, 

 verges to a violet, particularly beneath the tail, 

 which is eight inches long : legs grey- brown : 

 claws black : found in the East Indies. 



The next variety inhabits Mindanao, and is in 

 length fourteen inches : beak black, yellow at the 

 tip: the plumage wholly blackish, glossed with 

 blue : the first quill-feather half as short again as 

 the third, which is longest of all : tail generally 

 carried spread. There is also another variety, 

 which is in length nine inches: beak bright orange, 

 plumage black, glossed with green and violet: 



