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RUFOUS-SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus punctatus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi; corpore nigricante riifo punctato ; subtus rufo 



strigis nigris ; rectricibus rufo Jasciatis . 

 Cuckow, with a wedge-shaped tail, a blackish body spotted with 



rufous, beneath rufous with black striae ; tail-feathers banded 



with rufous. 

 Cuculus punctatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170. 8. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 413. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 21O. 8. 



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Cuculus indicus nsevius. Briss.4. 134. 14. t. 10 <t /^ 2. 

 Coucou brun picquete de roux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 377- 

 Coucou tachete des Indes or. Buff. PL Enl. 77 1 

 Rufous-spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 517. 8. 



THIS bird is sixteen inches and a half in length : 

 beak horn-coloured; from the base of it to the ear, 

 passing under the eyes, is a rufous band : upper 

 part of the body brown spotted with rufous ; be- 

 neath rufous, marked transversely with blackish- 

 brown striae ; those on the belly least numerous : 

 tail wedge-shaped, eight inches and a quarter long, 

 transversely striped with arched rufous bands on 

 each side the shafts ; all the ends of the feathers 

 rufous : legs grey-brown : claws blackish. 



The female differs from the male in having the 

 rufous spots on the upper part less numerous, and 

 the under parts much paler. /> 



Inhabits the East Indies and the Philippine 

 Islands. 



