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THE ROYAL CUCKOV/. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill fomewhat bending. 

 Nostrils bounded by a fmall rim. 

 Tongue fhort, pointed. 

 Feet fcanforial. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black Cuckow ? with a glofs of blue -, crimfon rerriges ; red beak yellow 

 on the front ; back of the head purple. 



IT is merely from a wilh to avoid the confuficn arifing from the inftitution 

 of new genera without abfolute neceffity, that the magnificent bird here 

 reprefented in called by the title expreffed on the plate. In faft, not only 

 this bird, but the Cuculus Perfa of Linnsus, (with which it feems to have a 

 confiderable affinity,) ought to be feparated from the genus Cuculus, and ar- 

 ranged in a diflind oncj their beaks and whole habit differing fronv the reH: 

 o£ the cuckow tiibe. 



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