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„ ' '• „^ Crelled Black Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. p. c ig. N° 1 1. 



i- CRESTED ^ , r c 1.^ r r. ,r . ■■ 



BLACK C Cuculus lerratus, opamn. Muf. Larlf. ■^l.iu. 



■j^/fR. Sparrman takes his trivial name from the fhape of the 

 white fpot on the wing being not unlike the teeth of a/aiy 

 I at the back part of it j this arifes from the obliquity of the white 



on each quill, which, when they are fomewhat open, may give ic 

 fuch an appearance. It is not, however, the cafe in my fpecimen, 

 as it merely appears as an irregular patch on the wing. 



i6. Egyptian Cuckow, Gm, Syn. ii. p. 523. Var. B. 



Var. B. 



Descriftion, ^IT.'E. o^ i\\Q Rain Cuckow : length nineteen inches and a half. 

 Bill an inch and a half long, ftout, curved, and of a black co- 

 lour I noftrils almoft covered with fhort feathers : upper eyelid 

 furnifhed with eight or nine briftles : the head and neck duflcy 

 brown, and the feathers narrow ; the fore part, as far as the breafl, 

 marked down the fhafts with indiftinft pale fpots and bars ; the 

 hind -part plain : wing coverts deep rufous, obfcurely barred with 

 dufky : quills barred rufous and blackifli, alternate, about twenty 

 of each: tail ten inches long, cuneiform j the outer feather only 

 five inches in length ; colour of the feathers black, barred with 

 numerous oblique dufky white lines, not correfponding on each 

 fide the fhafts : the belly, thighs, upper and under tail coverts, 

 dufky, croffed with numerous white lines : legs fliort, fliout, 

 rough ; the inner hind toe furnifhed with a ftrait claw, like that 

 of a Lark, and one inch in length ; on the infide of the bend of the 

 ■wing a fhort blunt fpur. 



Inhabits 



