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WHITE-RUMPED BLACK CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus tenebrosus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore nigro, dorso infimo uropygio abdo- 

 mine crissojemoribusque albis, fascia pectoralijufaa. 



Cuckow with a black body ; the lower part of the back, the 

 rump, abdomen, vent feathers and thighs white ; with a ful- 

 vous spot on the breast, and a wedge-shaped tail. 



Cuculus tenebrosus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 417. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 1. 221. 46. 



Le petit Coucou noir de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 

 4\7.Buff. PL Enl. 505. 



White-rumped black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 544. 43. 



THIS bird, which very much resembles the Bar- 

 bets in its manners, is found at the same place and 

 in similar situations as Bucco calcaratus : it sits the 

 whole day perched on a solitary branch of a tree, 

 in an open spot, and entirely without any motion, 

 except what is merely necessary for procuring the 

 insects on which it feeds ; it builds in the hole of a 

 tree, and sometimes even in a hole in the ground 

 if it find one already made. It is thus described : 

 length above eight inches ; beak above an inch, and 

 dusky : it is entirely black, except the lower part 

 of the back and the rump, the belly, thighs, and 

 vent, all of which are white: on the belly the 

 white is separated from the black by an orange 

 band : tail barely three inches long, wedge-shaped, 

 and exceeds the wings in length but very little : 

 legs yellow. 



