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LAUGHING CUCKOW. 



V 



(Cuculus rubicundus.) 



C.fulvus subtus niger; collo subtus pectoreque cinereis ; rectrm- 



busfulvo-nigricantibus. 

 Fulvous Cuckow, black beneath ; under part of the neck and 



the breast cinereous ; tail-feathers blackish-brown. 

 Cuculus rubicundus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 414. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. l. 220. 41. 



Cuculus Mexicanus. Bris. 4. 1 1Q. 6. 

 Laughing Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 53Q. 



BEAK blueish-black : head and upper parts are 

 fulvous : irides white : throat, fore-part of the 

 neck and breast cinereous : belly, sides, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts, black : tail of a blackish 

 fulvous colour, and half the length of the bird, 

 which is sixteen inches. 



Inhabits Mexico; and from its cry being some- 

 thing similar to that of human laughter, it is much 

 dreaded by the Indians, as foreboding some mis- 

 chief or other. 



