516 



C U C K O W. 



6. 



INDIAN 



SPOTTED 



C. 



Cuculus Scolopaceus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 170. N° 11. 

 Le Coucou tachete de Bengale, Brif. cm. iv. p. 132. 

 Le Boutfallick, Buf. cif. vi. p. 37-2. 

 Brown and fpotted Indian Cuckow, Edtti. pi. 59. 



N° 



*3* 



Description. TN bulk this is no bigger than a Thrufh, but meafures fourteen 

 inches in length. The bill is of a dirty yellow green, and 

 above an inch long : the plumage on the upper parts of the 

 body is rufous, the feathers edged with brown j on the under 

 parts white, edged with brown : the lower part of the belly, and 

 under tail coverts, have a mixture of rufous : the wing coverts are 

 white, edged with brown : quills and fcapulars tranfverfely ftriated 

 with brown and rufous : tail cuneiform, feven inches and a half 

 jn length ; the colour of it inclined to rufous, croffed with ob- 

 lique broad bands of brown : legs dirty greenifh yellow. 

 Place. Inhabits Bengal, where it goes by the name of Boutfallick- 



CHINESE 



SPOTTED 



C. 



Be 



SCKIPTIOH. 



Flaci. 



Le Coucou tachete dc la Chine, Buf. oif. vi. p. 378.— PI. ettl. 764. 



T ENGTH fourteen inches. Bill almoft an inch and a half 



long, blackilh above, and yellow beneath : the upper part 



of the head and neck are blackilh, fpotted with white about the 



eyes : all the upper parts of the body of a deep greenilh grey, 



marked with white, and glofied with gilded brown : throat and 



breaft regularly variegated with brown and white : the reft of the 



under parts barred with the fame : the tail is fix inches and a 



half long, even at the end, and barred with the fame colours : the 



legs are yellowifh. 



Inhabits China, 



Cuculus 



