100 SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



of the length of "the tail: legs ash-colour: claws 

 grey-brown. 



There is a variety of this bird described by Buf- 

 fon, which is of the same size, but is greyish in- 

 stead of rufous: the lateral tail-feathers tipped 

 with white : throat grey : under part of the body 

 white ; and the tail rather longer. It may be only 

 the other sex, which has not been ascertained. 



This bird is common at Cayenne and Guiana, 

 and is frequently seen upon gates and rails, 

 and in this situation is always moving its tail: 

 they do not frequent thick woods like most of 

 the genus, neither do they form themselves into 

 troops, although numbers are frequently found in 

 the same districts \ they are very tame. 



