5 i8 C U C K O W. 



breaft and belly pale rufcus, tranfverfely ftriped with black : the 

 tail is long, even at the end, of a rufous yellow, crofted with tranf- 

 verfe bars of black : the legs are lead-colour. 

 Pla.cs. Inhabits the IJle of Panay. It muft be obferved, that it differs 



from the laft in two particulars, viz. in wanting the rufous mark 

 under the eyes, and the tail not being cuneated as in the laft 

 bird ; otherwife, it feems not unlike it, both in figure and de- 

 fcription. 



io. Cuculus Orientalis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 1 68. N° 2. 



EASTERN Le CJoucou noir des Indes. Brif. om. iv. p. 142. N° 18. pi. io. f. i.—PJ. 



BL £CK W.2 74 .f.i. 



Le Coukcel, Buf. oif. vi. p. 383. le premier. 



Description. QIZE of a Pigeon: length fixteen inches. Bill grey brown: 

 general colour of the plumage black, glofied with green, and 

 in fome parts with viol-et, efpecially under the tail, which is eight 

 inches in length : legs grey brown : claws black. 

 PtACE. Inhabits the Eajl Indies. 



io, LeCoukeel, Buf. oif. vi. p. 383. lefecoiti. 



Var. A. 

 Description. C^ZE of our Cuckow : length fourteen inches. The bill is 

 black, with a yellow tip : the whole plumage blackifh, gloried 

 with blue : the firft quill feather is half as Ihort again as the 

 third, which is the longeft of all. It carries the tail fpread for 

 the moft part. 

 PiAeit Inhabits Mindanao. 



Cuculus 



