GREAT MADAGASCAR CUCKOW. 



(Cuculus Madagascarensis.) 



C, olivaceus fusco undulatus ; gula lutescente ; pectore abdomi- 

 neque antice Julvis ; cauda cuneiformi ; rectricibus lateralibus 

 apice albis. 



Olive-coloured Cuckow, undulated with brown ; throat yellow- 

 ish; breast and abdomen in front fulvous ; tail wedge-shaped, 

 the lateral feathers with white tips. 



Cuculus Madagascarensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 416. Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 1. 212. 15. 



Coucou verdatre de Madagascar. Bujf> Hist. Nat. Ois.6, 364. 

 Buffi PL Enl. 815. 



Great Madagascar Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 521. 14. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches and a half: beak an 

 inch and three quarters long, and black: irides 

 orange : a dusky streak beneath the eyes arising 

 at the beak : upper parts of the body dark olive, 

 obscurely waved with dark brown : throat light 

 olive, tinged with yellow : breast and upper parts 

 of the belly fulvous j lower parts of the belly and 

 under tail-coverts brown : thighs greyish ash-co- 

 lour : tail ten inches in length, some of the lateral 

 feathers tipped with white: the wings reach two 

 inches farther than the base of the tail : legs yel- 

 lowish-brown. Is found in the Island of Mada- 

 gascar, 



