116 GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



curate examination it evidently appears to be a 

 distinct species : it is an inhabitant of the southern 

 part of Africa. 



GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus glandarius.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite subcristato, alls albo et cinerascente 



maculatis, fascia oculari nigra. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, slightly crested head, wings 



spotted with white and cinereous, and a black stripe near the 



eye. 

 Cuculus glandarius. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 169. 5.Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 411. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 208. 3. 

 Cuculus Andalusiae. Bris. 4. 126. 10. Ger. Orn. 1. 81. 70* 

 Le grand Coucou tachete. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 361. 

 Great spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 513. 3. 



BEAK black, an inch and a quarter in length, 

 and a little bent : head crested ; crest composed 

 of blueish ash-coloured feathers : from the base of 

 the upper mandible arises a band of black, which 

 passes through the eyes almost to the hinder part 

 of the head, and is broadest in the middle : sca- 

 pulars, upper wing, and tail-coverts dark brown, 

 marked with small white and pale cinereous spots : 

 quills brown ; each of the secondaries marked with 

 a pale cinereous spot : tail wedge-shaped, blackish, 

 all tipped with white except the two middle fea- 

 thers : legs and claws black. 



This species inhabits the south of Europe, and 

 the north of Africa; size of a Magpie, about 

 fourteen inches in length. 



