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ST. DOMINGO CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Dominicus.) 



C. cauda cuneifbrmi; corpore griseo-Jusco sultus albido; rectricibus 



later alibus tribus apice albis. 

 Cuckow, with a wedge-shaped tail, with the three lateral feathers 



tipped with white ; body greyish fuscous, beneath whitish. 

 Cuculus Dominicus. Lin. Syst, Nat. 1.170. 13. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 416. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 221. 44. Bris. 4. 110. 2. 



t. g.f. 2. 



Le Cendrillard. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 413. 

 St. Domingo Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 541. 40. 



THIS bird* which is about the size of a Thrush^ 

 is ten inches and a half in length: beak grey brown> 

 and an inch and a quarter long: plumage grey 

 brown above, and generally, but not always, (be- 

 ing sometimes entirely white,) ash-colour beneath; 

 quills rufous, tipped and margined with grey 

 brown : tail five inches and a quarter long, and 

 wedge-shaped ; the two middle feathers grey 

 brown; the others black with white tips; the most 

 outward one being white on the exterior margin : 

 legs and claws grey brown. Found at Guiana, 

 St. Domingo, and Louisiana. 



v. ix. p. i. 



