AFRICAN CUCKOW. 115 



the under parts entirely white, as also the tip of 

 the tail : with brown legs. 



This species received its trivial name from the 

 shape of the white spot on the wing being very 

 like the teeth of a saw at the back part of it, 

 which arises from the white being placed obliquely 

 on each feather, and the wings most likely being 

 rather open in the original specimen, would give 

 it that appearance, as it is not the case when the 

 wings are quite closed, when it appears as an 

 irregular patch on the wing. 



Is found at the Cape of Good Hope, and on the 

 Coromandel coast. The female has been consi- 

 dered distinct by some authors, but Le Vaillant, 

 in his work on the African birds, assures us it is 

 not. 



AFRICAN CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Afer.) 



C. atro-mrens ; capite cristato ; gula, pectore, ventreque lutescen* 



tibus ilia nigro-maculata. 

 Dark-green Cuckow, with a crested head ; throat, breast, and 



belly yellowish ; the former mottled with black. 

 Cuculus Afer. Leach. Zool. Misc. 1. 72. 31. 

 Le Coucou Edolio var. Le Vaill. Ois. cTAfr. 5. 42. 20p. 

 African Cuckow. Leach. Zool. Misc. 1. 72. 



THIS bird is supposed by Le Vaillant to be only 

 a variety of his Edolio Coucou, but upon an ac- 



