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hollow trees, and do not lay their eggs in strange nests; a fact, so far as 
regards those species whose mode of breeding is known, that cannot be 
denied. 
We may separate from them an American species with a long bill, that 
is only curved near the tip*. 
M. Le Vaillant has already, and very properly, separated from the other 
Cuckoos, the 
Crentropus, Illig. 
Or the Coucals, species of Africa and India, in which the thumb nail 
is long, straight, and pointed, as in the Larks. Those which are known 
belong to the eastern continent. They also build in hollow trees f{. 
We should also distinguish with that naturalist, the 
Courots§, or Vourouprious of Madagascar. 
In whose thick, pointed, straight and compressed bill, which is but 
slightly arcuated at the point of its upper mandible, the nostrils are pierced 
obliquely in the middle of each side. Their tail is composed of twelve 
puills. They live in the woods, and build like the preceding birds. 
They are said to be mostly frugivorous ||. 
Inpicator, Vaill.* 
The Indicators are also inhabitants of Africa, and, as they feed on 
honey, have become celebrated for guiding the natives to the retreats of 
the wild bees, which they seek with loud cries. Their bill is short, high, 
and nearly conical, like that of the Finch. Their tail of twelve quills is 
at once slightly cuneiform, and partly forked. Their singularly hard skin 
shields them from the stings of the bees, which, being continually perse- 
cuted, sometimes kill them by attacking their eyes**, The 
Barsacous tT, Vaill. 
Have a conical, elongated bill, but little compressed, and slightly arcu- 
ated at the end, whose base is furnished with slender feathers or stiff 
hairs, which ally them to the Barbetstf. 
* Cuc. vetula, Enl.772. It is upon this distinction that Vieill. has founded his 
genus SAUROTHERA, Galer. 38. 
} Coucal, compounded of Cuckoo and Lark (Coe. and Alouette); centropus, feet 
with spurs. Vieill. has changed it into Coryponik, and Leach into Popopuitus. 
{ Cuculvs egyptius and senegalensis, Enl. 332; Vaill. Afr. 219;—philippensis, Nob. 
Enl. 824, or C. bubutus, Horsf. Jav.;—nigro-rufus, Nob. Vaill. Afr. 220;—#olu, Enl. 
295; Vaill. 219;—bengalensis, Brown, Ill. XI11;—rufinus, Nob. Vaill. 221;—e@thiops, 
Nob. Vaill. 222;—gizas, Nob. Vaill. 223;—atralbus, Voy. de la Cog. Zool. 34. 
§ Courol, from Cuckoo and Roller. From this division Vieill. has made his genus 
Lerrosomus, Gal. 29. 
|| Cuculus afer, Enl. 387, the male, whose bill is badly drawn, and 588, the female, 
where it is better, Vaill. 226, 227. 
*® Cuculus indicator, Vaill. Afr. 241;—minor, Nob. Id. 24;—albirostris, 'T. Col. 
367. Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, Gal. 45. 
tt Barbacou, composed of barbet and cuckoo. From it Vieill. has made his genus 
MonasiA, Gal. 36. 
Ji Cuculus tranquillus, Enl. 512; Spix, 41, 2;—C. tenebrosus, Enl. 505, and Col. 
323, 2;—C, rufalbinus, T. Col. 823 ;—-Monasa personata, Vieill. Gal. 36, or Bucco albi~ 
Jrons, Spix, 41. 
N.B. We should also observe, that the Cue. paradiseus, Briss. IV, pl. xiv, A, 1, 
is the Drongo de Paradis (Lanius malabaricus), and that the Cuc. sinensis, Id. Ib. A, 2, 
