C U C K O W. 509 



IRDS of the Cuckow genus have 

 The bill weak, and more or lefs bending. 

 Noftrils, bounded by a fmall rim. 

 Tongue, fhort, pointed. 

 Toes, two forward, two backward. 

 Tail cuneated, confifting often foft feathers *. 



Cuculus canorus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 16S. N° \. — Scop. ann. i. p. 44. N° 48. 1. 



Le Coucou, Brif. orn. iv. p. 1 o S . N° 1 .—Buf. oif. vi.fp. 305.— PI. enl. 811. ^UCKOW? 

 Kuckuk, Frifcb. pi. 40. 41. — Kram. el. p. 337. 

 Cuculo, Olin. uctel. p. 38. 



Cuckow, Raii Syti. p. 23. — Will. orn. p. 97. pi. 10. JJ. — Albin. i. pi. 8. — 

 Br. Zool. i. N° 82. pi. 36.— Amer. Zool. N° 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Turtle : length fourteen inches: breadth twenty-five Description. 



inches. Bill black, two-thirds of an inch long, and a little 

 bent : irides yellow : head, hind part of the neck, wing coverts, 

 and rump, dove-colour ; darker on the head, and paler on the 

 rump: throat and neck of a pale grey: bread and belly white, 

 crofled elegantly with black undulated lines : vent buff, marked 

 with a few dufky fpots : wings very long, reaching within an inch 

 and half of the end of the tail : the firft quill feather is three inches 

 fhorter than the others j they are all dufky, and their inner 

 webs are barred with large oval white fpots : the tail is cunei- 

 form ; the two middle feathers are black, tipt with white; the 



* Not throughout the whole ; for the thirtieth and thirtyfirft have each of 

 them twelve feathers in the tail ; and in feveral fpecies^the tail is even at the end. • 

 10 others 



