C U C K O W. 



, form ; outer feathers dufky, with brown tips ; the others marked 

 with bars of black, and narrow ones of brown : legs black ; the 

 inner hind toe has a long ftrait claw like a Lark. 

 Flaee. Inhabits Bengal. 



The three laft feem to bear affinity to each other, though the 

 produce of different countries ; the general mark of the neck 

 and head feathers having the longitudinal ftripe in the middle^ 

 and all of them the heel of a Lark. 



„ 0> Cuculus honoratus, Lin. Sjjr. i. p. 169. N° 7. 



SACRED Le Coucou tachete de Malabar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 136. N° 15. pi. 11. A. 



C- f. 2. — PI. enl. 294. 



Le Cuil, Buf. oif. vi. p. 375. 



Description. '"THIS is fomewhat lefs than our Cuckow: length eleven inches 

 and a half. General colour blackifh. am on the upper parts, 

 marked with two fpots of white on each feather; beneath white, 

 tranfverfely fpotted with afh-colour : quills cinereous, tranfverfely 

 fpotted with white : tail much cuneated, five inches and a half 

 long,' and of the fame colour as the quills; the outer feather 

 only three inches long : legs and claws pale afh-colour. 

 Pi-ACE. Inhabits Malabar, where the natives hold it facred. It feeds 



on reptiles, which, perhaps, may be fuch as are the mofr. noxious j. 

 if fo, this feeming fuperftition may have rife from a more reafon- 

 able foundation than many others of the like fort. 



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