CAROLINA CUCKOW. 93 



same, barred with brown, the bars broadest on the 

 breast and belly : vent white, without any brown 

 stripes : quills marked with ferruginous spots : 

 under tail-coverts pale buff; upper ones like the 

 back, one third the length of the tail, which is 

 nine inches long, and very much wedge-shaped ; 

 all the feathers tipped with white, and marked 

 with ferruginous bars, which are very numerous : 

 wings, when closed, reaching to one third of the 

 length : legs greenish. 



This species is about the size of a Magpie, being 

 full nineteen inches long: it inhabits Otaheite, 

 and likewise some of the adjoining islands; in 

 the former place it is called Areva-reva and Ara* 

 Wereroa, 



CAROLINA CUCKOW, 



(Cuculus Americanus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corport supra cinereo subtus albo, mandibula 



inferiors lutea. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, body above cinereous, beneath 



white, inferior mandible yellow. 

 Cuculus Americanus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170. 10. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 414. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 21Q. 3Q. 

 Cuculus Carolinensis. Bris. 4. 112.3. 

 Le Vieillard a ailes rousses. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 400. 

 Coucou de la Caroline. Buff. PL Enl. 816. 

 Carolina Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 52?. 35. 



THIS is about the size of a Blackbird ; the upper 

 mandible of the beak black, with a yellowish base; 



