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and that it fies on its own eges: the nefts of thefe birds not un- 
common, he having procured three or four of them; one difcovered 
by himfelf, was built in the fork of a fmall oak, made of fticks 
lined with mofs, and over that dead Hiccory blofioms; the eggs were 
five in number, of a rough blue colour, but not deep, and found 
complete about the latter end of April. 
Cuculus Perfa, Ind. Orn. i. p. 222. 49. 
Touraco, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 545. 46. 
LEVAILLANT, in his travels *, obferves, that numbers of 
* Touracos are in the country of Hottniquas, but are difficult to 
fhoot, perching only at the extremities of the higheft branches of 
trees, out of gunfhot, and rarely fuffer any one to come near enough : 
feeds on fruits, but not on infects, and is eafily caught alive by fnares 
baited with fuch fruits as are in feafon; in another place he talks of 
having killed many Flycatchers and Touracos, which when fricafleed, 
were fuperior to the Pintado or Partridge +. 
Coucou Criard, Son. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) ii. p. 6. 
HIS is faid to be wholly of a brown black colour, having nothing 
otherwife remarkable. 
Inhabits the inner part of the Cape of Good Hope, in the country of 
Gonaquois, where it is known to the Europeans by the name of Criard, 
being a very noify fpecies, and may be heard at a great diftence. The 
note confifts of divers founds, very diftinét, and it paffes whole hours 
in finging without interruption, by which the fportfman is led to the 
place where it is. 
* (Fr. ed. 8vo.) Vol. i. p. 106.—il. p. 7. 
+ We beg leave here to notice an error in our 2d vol. of Synopfis, p. 531. wherein 
the three paragraphs from line 16, fhould have been placed after Teuraco. 
