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the neck,, tranfverfely ftriped with brown and rufous : back and 

 rump brown : the upper tail coverts, fore part of the neck, the 

 breaft, belly, fides, and under tail coverts, incline to rufous, with 

 a blackilh fpot near the end of every feather : thighs and under 

 wing coverts plain : lefier wing coverts, above, brown tipped 

 with rufous ; the greater ones brown within, and dull green on 

 the outer edge, margined and tipped with rufous : quills as in 

 the male, but duller: tail fine brown above, fomewhat rufous at 

 the tips : legs reddifh : claws blackilh. 



Both thefe inhabit Madagafcar, where the male is called Vouroug- Place-. 



driou, and the female Cromb. They differ fo much, as to be taken 

 by the natives for diftincT: fpecies. 



Le Coucou indicateur, Buf. oif. vi. p. 392. N° 22. 



Cuculus indicator, J. Fr. Miller mi/cell, fol, tab. xxiv. fig. A. trrwiwv 



Honey Guide, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixvii. p. 38. pi. 1. q 



ENGTH feven inches. Bill half an inch long, thickifh ; brown Descrip.ticn- 

 towards the bafe; at the tip luteous ; the bafe befet with a 

 few briftles: irides ferruginous grey: eyelids naked, black : top 

 of the head grey; the feathers broadifh and Ihort : chin, throat, 

 and breaflr,. dirty white, witLa tinge of green on the laft : back and 

 ramp ferruginous grey : belly and vent white :. thighs white, with 

 a longitudinal ftreak of black on each feather : upper wing coverts 

 grey-brown, fome of them tipped with yellow, forming a yellow 

 fpot on the fhoulders, which is, for the moft part, covered by the 

 fcapulars : quills, above, brown ; beneath, grey-brown : baftard 

 wing grey-brown : tail cuneiform, compofed of twelve feathers, 

 the two middle ones narrowefc ; both above and beneath rufiy 

 brown ; the two next, on each fide, fuliginous ; the inner margins. 



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