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"fmall blue fpots : the reft of the head, and the throat, are 

 blackifh : on each fide of the head, behind the eye, is a round 

 white fpot : hind part of the neck, back, fcapulars, and upper 

 tail coverts, fine blue : greater wing coverts, fartheft from the 

 body, white: rump very pale blue: upper tail coverts of the 

 fame colour as the back, with a white fpot near the end : parts 

 beneath fnow white : quills half pale and half deep blue : tail 

 feathers deep blue, with a roundifh white fpot near the end of 

 each ; the two middle feathers exceed the next in length, by three 

 inches and a quarter; the two outer ones only one inch and 

 three quarters long : legs and claws red. 



Inhabits China. Place* 



Neither Linnaus, Brijfon, nor Buffon appear to have feen this 

 bird, but are indebted to the pencil of M. Poivre for it. 



Scopoli obferves, that it is apt to vary in colour ; and that it has 

 a notch at the end of the upper mandible, as in the Shrike. 



Klein. * fays, it is a native of Guinea, in the more northern 

 parts, as well as thofe bordering on the Cape of Good Hope. 



That in PI. -ml. is white round the eye, and has a ftreak behind 

 ^it : creft tipped white, and half ere6r. : only the middle quills red ; 

 thighs and vent black : legs black. 



Cuculus caeruleus, Lin. Syji. i. p. iji. N° 15, 



Le Coucou bleu de Madagascar, Sri/, orn. iv. p. 156. N° 26. pi. 13. f. -I* BLUE 



PI. enl. 295-. f. 2. C. 



Le Tait-fou, Buf.tif. vi. p. 191. pi. 18. 



SIZE of our Cuckow : length feventeen inches. The bill an _ 

 . ° . T>ESCRIPTIOWt 



mch and a quarter long, and black: the plumage is wholly 



* Av. p, 36. 



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