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fuscous band near the apex. We have met with many specimens 

 of C. Iticidus, all of which accorded in these markings with the 

 bird in our collection : but we have not seen any other speci- 

 men of the C. met alliens besides the bird before us. This bird 

 differs also from C. chalcites. 111., which has been described as u 

 New Holland Cuckoo, in having the abdomen fasciated, which in 

 both sexes of the other bird is pure white and free from mark- 

 ings*. 



Genus. EuDYNAMVst. 



Rostrum crassum, subelongatum, culmine rotundato, a basi ar- 

 cuato, lateribus subcompressis : mandibula superiore apice 

 subemarginata, inferiore gonyde ascendente conspicuâ : 

 naribus subgrandibus, patulis, ovalibus, subobliquc positis, 

 supra membranâ partim tectis. 



Alœ subbreves, rotundatœ ; remigibus tertiâ quartâ et quintâ 

 ferè œqualibus longissimis, prima brevi undecimœ osquali : 

 pogoniis integris. 



Pedes robusti, nudi ; acrotarsiis ad latus externum compressissi- 

 mis, in scuta quatuor grandia divisis ; paratarsiis in medio 

 compressis, in scutula plurima divisis. 



Cauda elongata, patula, rotundata. 



The true Cuckoos, or that portion of the present family of 

 Cuculida which constitutes the genus Cuculus, Auct., is distin- 

 guished from the remaining groups of the family by the compa- 

 rative weakness of the bill, in which the nares are small and 

 rounded, and situated on an elevated membrane ; by the wings 

 being strongly acuminated, the primary quill-feathers consi- 

 derably exceeding the secondary in length ; and by the feeble- 

 ness of the legs and toes, the former of which are plumed 

 beneath the knee, and are generally covered by the thigh- 



* See Temm. PL Col. 102./. 2. t -Eu bene, and Suva/xij potcnlia. 



feathers. 



