TIPPET CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus palliolatus. ) 



C. corpore virescente sultus albo; lateribus colli tcenia obliqua 



nigra. 

 Cuckow, with a greenish body ; white beneath ; sides of the 



neck with an oblique black band. 

 Cuculus palliolatus. Lath. Gen. Sup. II. 30. 5. 

 Tippet Cuckow. Lath. Sup. II. 138. 10. 



THIS bird, which is rare, is about twelve inches 

 in length : irides orange : beak brown, and bent 

 a little at the tip : body above dull green j beneath 

 white : crown, and as far as the eyes on each side 

 black ; which colour reaches forward on the sides 

 of the neck, and almost meets in the middle, hav- 

 ing the appearance of a tippet: sides of the wings 

 yellowish : thighs with a few rusty spots : quills 

 black : tail very short, the outer margin of the 

 feathers with white spots : legs blueish-white, 

 dotted with black. Inhabits New Holland. 



