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INDIAN SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus scolopaceus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore undique griseojuscoque nebuloso. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, and with the whole body 



clouded with grey and brown. 

 Cuculus scolopaceus. Lin. Syst. Nat. ]. 170. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 412. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 20p. 6. 

 Cuculus bengalensis naevius. Bris. 4. 132. 13. 

 Le Boutsallik. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3J2. 

 Coucou tachet^ de Bengale. Buff. PI. Enl. 586'. 

 Indian spotted Cuckow. Lath. Sun. 2. 576, Q. 



THE beak of this species is of a dirty yellowish 

 green, and above an inch in length ; the plumage 

 on the upper parts of the body rufous, the feathers 

 edged with brown ; and on the under parts white, 

 edged with brown ; the lower part of the belly, 

 and under tail-coverts, with a mixture of rufous : 

 wing-coverts white edged with brown : quills and 

 scapulars striated transversely with rufous and 

 brown : tail wedge-shaped ; seven inches and a 

 half in length, and rufous, crossed with broad ob^ 

 lique bands of brown : legs dirty greenish yellow. 



Is about the size of a Thrush, and inhabits 

 Bengal, where it is called Boutsallick, 



