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merous ferruginous brown bars, and tipped with white: the 

 •wings, when clofed, reach nearly to one-third of it : the legs 

 are greenifh. 



This fpecies inhabits O-taheite, where it is called Areva-reva. Placs. 



It is alfo found in fome of the neighbouring ifles, where it is 

 called Tayarabbo. 



Cuculus Mindanenfis, Lin. SyJI. i. p. 169. N* 3. 5- 



Le Coucou tachete de Mindanao, Brif. orn. iv. p, 130. N» it. pi. 12. f. 1. MINDANAO 



— — variede Mindanao, Buf. oif. vi. p. 373. — PI. enl. Z77. 



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TV/TUCH bigger than our Cuckow : length fourteen inches and Description. 



a half. The bill is of a grey brown : the general colour of 

 the plumage gilded brown, marked with white fpots, as alfo with 

 pale and darker rufous ones : the under parts are white, tranf- 

 verfely flxeaked with blackiih ; but the fore parts of the neck 

 and throat are plain brown, fpotted with white: quills brown, 

 Ipotted with rufous on the outer, and with white on the inner 

 webs : tail of a gilded . brown, crofTed with tranfverfe rufous 

 bands on each fide the fhaft, and fome of the tail feathers tipped 

 with white : legs and claws grey. 



This is found at Mindanao, and other of the Philippine IJlands. Place. 



At firfl: fight it has the appearance of a young European Cuckow, 

 but on comparifon it will be found far different from that bird;, 

 efpecially in the quills and tail. 



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