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general hard and ftiff; the webs loofe, and each of the beards 

 f'urnifhed with fhorter ones : the legs are black: the inner hind 

 claw is faid to be more (lender than the reftj but it is not men- 

 tioned whether it is ftrait or longer : neither is the tail faid to be 

 wedge-fhaped ; nor does the figure exprefs it. M. Sonnerat only 

 fays, it is long and black : however, this might eafily have efcaped 

 the pencil of the draughtfman. M. Sonnerat has faid full enough 

 to make us fuppofe it the fame, or a trifling variety of the laft 

 mentioned. 



17. Le Coucou de Madagafcar, Brif. cm. iv. p. 138. N° 16. pi. 13. f. s.— 



LONG-HEELED Buf. oif. vi. p. 369. pi. 17. 



Coucou de Madagafcar, appellc Toulou, PL cnl. 295. f. 1. lafemelle-. 



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Description. COMEWHAT bigger than a Blackbird: length fourteen 

 inches and a quarter. The bill is brown, an inch and a 

 quarter in length : head, throat, hind part of the neck, and upper 

 part of the back, covered with longifh, narrow, ft iff feathers, of a 

 blackifh colour, with a rufous white ftripe down the fhaft;>thofe 

 on the throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, the fame, but 

 have only a longitudinal ftripe on each fide : lower part of the 

 back, rump, belly, fides, thighs, upper and lower tail coverts, 

 greenifh black : fcapulars, upper and under wing coverts, fine 

 cheftnut ; fhafts of them and the fcapulars purplifh : quills 

 cheftnut, tipped with brown : the tail eight inches or more in 

 length ; of a blackifh green above, and black beneath ; in fhape 

 cuneiform : legs and claws black : the claw of the inner hind toe 

 three quarters of an inch in length, and almoft ftrait, like that of 

 a Lark. 



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