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CAYENNE CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus cayanus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore castaneo-purpurascente subtus cine- 

 reo 9 rectricibus omnibus apice albis. 



Cuckow with a chesnut-purplish body, beneath cinereous pur- 

 ple ; tail wedge-shaped, all the feathers tipped with white. 



Cuculus cayanus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170. 14. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 I. 417. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 221. 45. 



Cuculus cayanensis. Bris. 4. 122. 8. t. 8.f. 2. 



Coucou piaye. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. Q. 414. 



Coucou de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 211. 



Cayenne Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 542. 41. 



THIS variable species is a native of Cayenne, 

 and is called by the name of Piaye, or Devil ; is 

 near sixteen inches in length : with a greyish 

 brown beak, which is about an inch long, and ra- 

 ther bent at the tip : on the upper parts the 

 plumage is of a purplish chesnut ; as it likewise is 

 beneath, but paler : quills the same as the upper 

 parts, with brown tips : tail the same ; black near 

 the end, and tipped with white ; it is above ten 

 inches in length, and very much wedge-shaped : 

 legs and claws grey brown. 



There are two varieties of this bird mentioned 

 by authors, the first differing in having the belly, 

 sides, and thighs brown ash, and being only ten 

 inches and a half in length : the second has a red 

 bill ; an ash-coloured head ; throat and breast 

 rufous ; with the rest of the under parts cinereous 

 black. 



