HIS bird is about nine inches in length: the bill fomewhat bent, 
of a pale blue colour: the upper part of the head, taking in the 
eyes, the fides and back of the neck, deep blue, inclining to blackith : 
the reft of the upper parts pale brown, dotted on the back wich 
white, and marked with narrow bars of the fame acrofs the wiags and 
tail, which laft is rather long, nearly even, being a very trifle rounded 
at the end: the under parts are wholly white, tranfverfely marked 
with narrow dufky lines: the throat and fore part of the neck incline 
to orange: legs blueifh, very ftout, and fcaly. 
Inhabits New Holland: Mr. Lambert informs me, that the above 
was the only one of the kind feen there by Mr. White, but that one 
.of a fimilar form and fize, of a gloffy black colour, was taken at the 
fame time, and it was then fuppofed that thefe two only differed in 
fex. 
HIS is a beautiful fpecies, and is in length from fixteen to 
eighteen inches: the bill, head, neck, and all beneath are of a fine 
black: the whole of the back and wings varied with rufous, yellow, 
brown, and black, fomewhat fimilar to a Pheafant or Woodcock: 
the tail is long, and barred elegantly with the fame colour: the legs 
are dufky black ; the toes placed’two before and two behind, as in 
other Cuckows, but the hind-claws are pretty long, and lefs hooked 
than the fore ones, refembling in this the Egyptian Cuckow, which how- 
ever differs materially in colour, asin that bird the back and wings 
are plain rufous, and the tail, though long and cuneiform, is wholly re 
black. 
Inhabits New South Wales, known there by the name of Phea/ant. — 
Supp. II, aT 
137 
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BLUE- 
HEADED 
¢ 
Description. 
PLAcs. 
PHE ASANT 
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DEscrirrion, 
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