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C U C K O W. 



15- 

 MADAGASCAR 



CRESTED 



C. 



D 



ESCRIPTION. 



Place-. 



Cuculus criftatus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 171. N° 19. 



Le Coucou hupe de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. iv. 149. N° 



Le Coua, Buf. oij. vi. p. 365. N° 4. t. 16. 



Coucou huppe de Madagafcar, PL enl. 589. 



22. 



12. f. 2. 



QIZE of a Jay : length fourteen inches. Bill above an inch 

 long, black : irides orange : the head and upper parts of the 

 body are of an elegant afh- colour, inclining to green : the fea- 

 thers on the head are long, forming a creft : throat and fore part 

 of the neck cinereous: lower part of the neck and breaft vi- 

 naceous: belly and fides whitifh, with a tinge of rufous : under 

 tail coverts rufous white : thighs white, marked with bars of 

 light afh : quills pale green, with a glofs of blue and violet; be- 

 neath cinereous : tail much the fame ; the fide feathers tipped 

 with white; the two middle feathers rather longeft : legs black. 



Inhabits Madagafcar -, where it is called Coua. M. Commerfon, 

 by whom a description of the bird was fent to Buffon, adds, that 

 it carries its tail fpread : that the neck is fhort : the noftrils bare, 

 obliquely placed : tongue pointed, and cartilaginous : the cheeks 

 bare, wrinkled, and white :. and adds, that the flefh is good to 

 eat; and frequents the woods about Fort Dauphin. 



16. 



EGYPTIAN 

 C. 



Description. 



Female. 



Le Houhou d'Egypte, Buf. oif. vi. p. 367. 



T ENGTH between fourteen and fixteen inches. Bill an inch 



and a quarter long, or more, and black: irides bright red: the 



head and hind part of the neck dull green, with a glofs of po- 



lifhed fteel, and the feathers ft iff in their texture : upper wing 



jo „ coverts 



