COLLARED CUCKOW. 119 



spread : it is likewise found in Madagascar, Se- 

 negal, and Caffraria, where it is called Coua, no 

 doubt from its uttering the words coha-coha-coha 

 repeatedly, \yhich it is said to do by Le Vaillant. 



COLLARED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus coromandus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite cristato, corpore nigro, subtus tor- 



queque collari albo. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, crested head, black body, 



and a white collar round the neck. 

 Cuculus coromandus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 171. 20. Gmel. Syst* 



Nat. J. 421. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 21 6. 30. 

 Coucou huppe ii collier. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 388. 

 Coucou huppe de Coromandel. Ruff. PL Enl. 274. 2. 

 Collared Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 520. 26. 

 ft. gula,jugulo remigibusquefuscis. 

 With the throat, jugulum, and wing-quills fuscous. 

 Le C9ucou a" collier blanc. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afr. 5. 213. 



BEAK not quite an inch in length, rather bent, 

 and of an ash-colour : irides yellowish : head 

 crested, and blackish, as is the upper part of the. 

 body : there is a small, round, grey spot on each 

 side of the head behind the eye : the upper part 

 of the neck is surrounded with a white collar, a 

 quarter of an inch broad : throat and thighs are 

 blackish : the fore part of the neck, breast, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts white : scapulars and wing- 

 coverts blackish in the middle, with rufous mar- 

 gins ; but the greater wing-coverts farthest from 



