Manners. 



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coverts rufous, inclining to green : quills rufous, terminated with 

 fhining green, except the three laft, which are wholly of this co- 

 lour, and the two or three preceding them, which are of a mixed 

 colour : the back is brown, with a tinge of green : rump, and 

 upper tail coverts, brown : tail cuneated, eight inches in length, 

 of a fhining green, with a glofs of polifhed fteel : throat, and 

 under parts of the body, rufous white, paleft on the belly : legs 

 blackifh. ■ - 



- This defcription taken from a female. The bird is feen fre- Place and 

 quently in the Delta, in Egypt ; where it is called by the Arabs, 

 Houhou, repeating that word feveral times together. The male 

 and female are leldom afunder ; but it is rarely that more than 

 "two are feen together. Locufts are their principal food. They 

 are feldom feen on large trees, nor often on the ground ; but 

 chiefly frequent low bufhes near running water. 



Coucou des Philippines, Buf. oif. vi. p. 369. — PL enh 824. i5. 



Var. A, 



'TpHIS is fo like the laft, that one defcription might ferve. Male. 



The wings only in this are rufous, and all the reft ©f the 



plumage fhining black. 



Buff on feems to think this the male of the laft. 



Coucou vert d'Antigue, Son. Voy. p. 181. pi. 80. jg. 



Var. B. 



ESS than a Cuckow. Irides black i eyelids furnifhed' with Description. 

 hairs like eyelafhes : head, neck, breafc, and belly, dull 

 green, almoft black : wings of a deep red brown : the feathers in 



3X2 general 



