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MINDANAO CUCKOW. 



(Cuculus Mindanensis.) 



C. cauda rotundata ; corpore viridi-aureo Jusco-albo maculato ; 



subtus albo nigricante undulato. 

 Cuckow, with a rounded tail; body of a green-gold spotted with 



dirty white, beneath white with black undulations. 

 Cuculus mindanensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 169.3. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 412. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 20Q. 5. 

 Cuculus mindanensis naevius. Bris. 4. 130. t. 12. f. 1. Ger. 



Orn. ]. 82. 76. 

 Le Coucou vari de Mindanao. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 5J5. 



Buff 1 . PI Enl 277. 

 Mindanao Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 515. 5. 



THIS species at first sight has something the ap- 

 pearance of a young European Cuckow, although 

 it is much larger than a full-grown one, and is very 

 different from it, particularly in the quills and 

 tail: it is in length fourteen inches and a half: 

 the beak is of a grey-brown : the plumage is of a 

 gilded-brown, marked with white spots, and also 

 with pale and rufous ones : under parts white, 

 transversely streaked with blackish : fore-part of 

 the neck and throat br^own, spotted with white : 

 quills brown, spotted on the outer webs with ru- 

 fous, and the inner with white : tail of a gilded- 

 brown, crossed with transverse rufous bands on 

 each side the shaft, some of the feathers tipped 

 with white : legs and claws grey. 



It is found at Mindanao, and other of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, and likewise about the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the Coast of Coromandel. 



