CUCKOW. 525 



Inhabits Madagajcar, where it is called Tolou. From the great Place. 



fimilanty this has to the Hoabou, it is probable that it may be a 

 young one of that bird. 



Cuculus Senegalenfis, Lin.Syft.i. 169. N° 6. 18. 



Le Coucou du Senega], Brif. orn. iv. p. 120. N° 7. t. 8. f. 1.— PA ms7.-33.Zv HEELED. 



Le Rufalbin, Buf. oif. vi. p. 370.- C. 



"FN bulk it exceeds our Cuckow : length fifteen inches and a Description. 



quarter. General colour brownifh, inclined to rufous above, 

 beneath dirty white : the bill is black, fifteen lines long : the 

 upper parts of the head and neck are covered with blackifh fea- 

 thers, the middle and fhafts of which are deeped : cheeks, throat, 

 fore part and fides of the neck, are dirty white, with the fhafts of 

 a brighter colour : rump and upper tail coverts brown, with 

 tranfverfe deep brown drias : the under parts from the bread dirty 

 white, with very obfcure tranfverfe drias : under tail coverts the 

 fame, but the drise more manifed : quills rufous, with brownifh 

 tips : tail eight inches long, cuneated, and of a black colour : 

 legs and claws greyifh brown ; the inner hind claws more than 

 five lines long, drait, like the hind claw of a Lark. 



Inhabits Senegal. Place. 



19. 

 Lark-heeled Cuckow, Broivn. III. -p. 26. t. 13; LARK-HEELED 



C. 



IN fize fomewhat larger than a Lark. Bill duflcy : head, neck, x> ESCR , pr[0K ,. 



back, and wing coverts, ferruginous, marked with fhort lines 

 of white, bounded by black, pointing downwards : belly yellowifh 

 brown : the fird and fecond of the prime quills plain reddifh 

 brown 3 the red barred with black : tail very, long, and cunei- 

 form^ 



