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Coucou du Cap de Bonne Efperauce, Buf. oif. vi. p. 353. — PA enl. 390. 



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CAPE 



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Place anb 

 Manners. 



A TRIFLE fmaller than our Cuckow : length under twelve Description 



inches. Bill deep brown : irides yellow : the upper part of 

 the body greenifh brown : throat, cheeks, fore part of the neck, 

 and upper wing coverts, of a deep rufous colour : tail feathers 

 rufous, but paler, tipped with white : the breaft, and all the un- 

 der parts of the body, white, croffed with lines of black : legs 

 reddifh brown. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and is moft likely the fame 

 bird which is called Edolio, from its pronouncing that word fre- 

 quently in a low melancholy tone. 



Voyagers alfo mention another Cuckow, which is common to 

 Loango, in Africa. This is bigger than ours, but of the fame 

 colour, and repeats the word Cuckow like that bird, but in diffe- 

 rent inflexion of voice. It is faid that the male and female toge- 

 ther go through the whole eight notes of the Gamut ; the male, be- 

 ginning by itfelf, founds the three firft, after which he Ls accompa- 

 nied by ihe female through the reft of the octave *. 



Cuculus glandarius, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 169. N° 5. 

 Le Coucou d'Andaloufie, Brif. ern. iv. p. 126. N° I p. 

 Le grand Coucou tachete, Buf. oif. vi. p. 361. 

 Great fpotted Cuckow, Ed<w. pi. 57. 



GREAT 



SPOTTED 



C. 



CIZE of a Magpie. Bill black, an inch and a quarter long, Description. 





and a little bent : the head is crefted ; the creft compofed of 



blueiih afh-coloured feathers 



from the bafe of the upper rria'h- 



* Hi/}, des oif. vi. p. 354. 

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