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CHINESE SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



(Cuculus maculatus.) 



C. cauda elongata; corpore viridi-griseo fusco nitente albo varie- 

 gato; subtusjasciato ; capite nigro. 



Cuckow, with an elongated tail , body of a green-grey, varie- 

 gated with white, with a brownish gloss, beneath banded ; 

 head black. 



Cuculus maculatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 415. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 1. 209. 7. 



Coucou tachete de la Chine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 3/8. 

 Buff. PL Enl. 764. 



Chinese spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 516. 7- 



LENGTH fourteen inches : beak blackish above, 

 and yellow beneath, almost an inch and a half 

 long : upper part of the head and neck blackish, 

 spotted with white about the eyes : all the upper 

 parts of the body of a fine greenish-grey, marked 

 with white, and glossed with gilded-brown : throat 

 and breast regularly variegated with white and 

 brown ; the rest of the under parts barred with 

 the same: tail six inches and a half long, even at 

 the end, and barred with white and brown like the 

 rest of the body : legs yellowish. Found in China. 



