SOCIETY CUCKOW. 



a dull yellow ground, the latter light yellow : legs 

 reddish. 



Found at the Isle of Panay, one of the Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



SOCIETY CUCKOW. 



(Cuculus taitensis.) 



C . Juscus Jerrugineo maculatus, subtus candidus longitudinaliter 

 Jusco striatuSy cauda cuneiformifosciis sublunatisferrugineis. 



Brown Cuckovv spotted with ferruginous, beneath white longi- 

 tudinally striated with brown, tail wedge-shaped with sublunate 

 ferruginous fasciae. 



Cuculus taitensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 20.Q. 4. 



Cuculus taitius. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 412. 



Le Coucou brun varie de noir. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 376. 



Society Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 514. 4. 



THE beak of this bird is an inch and a quarter 

 in length, curved at the point, and stout : the 

 upper mandible blackish : the under one pale : 

 irides pale yellow : upper parts of the body brown : 

 the head marked with ferruginous stripes, which 

 are disposed in a perpendicular position ; the rest 

 of the plumage above transversely streaked and 

 blotched with the same : there is a dash of white 

 along the under jaw, beginning at the nostrils, 

 and likewise another of the same colour over the 

 eye : the middle of each feather of the neck 

 darkest : the chin and middle of the throat white : 

 sides of the neck, the breast, belly, and thighs the 



