G U C K O W. 



is laid to have but, eight feathers in the tail ; but, as I never heard 

 of any bird which had fewer than ten, I fhall wait for further con- 

 firmation of this circumftance before I give credit to it. 



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Le' Coucou du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 119. N° 6. 



Le Quapadtol, ou le Rieur, Buf. oif. vi. p. 408. N° 4. 



The Laughing Bird, or Quapaftototl, Will, em. 387. — Rati Sytt, p. 174. 



T ENGTH fixteen inches. Head and parts above fulvous : 

 bill blueifh black : irides white : throat, fore part of the 

 neck, and breaft, cinereous: belly, fides, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts, black : tail of a blackiih fulvous colour, half the length 

 of the bird. 



Inhabits Mexico. The cry of this bird is like that of human 

 laughter j on which account it is dreaded by the Indians, as in- 

 aufpicious and ominous, foreboding fome evil or mifchief. 



LAUGHING 

 C. 



Description. 



Place. 



Cuculus nsvius, Lin. Syft. i. p. 170. N° 9. 



Le Coucou tachete de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 127. N° 11. pi. 9. f. I. 



— PI. enl.Siz. 

 Le Coucou brun varie de roux, Buf. oif. vi. p. 411. 



38. 

 SPOTTED 

 C. 



CIZE of a Fieldfare : length ten inches and three quarters. Bill Description. 



three quarters of an inch j the upper mandible black on the 

 top, and rufous on the fides ; the under wholly rufous : general 

 colour of the plumage rufous in two fhades ; the under parts ru- 

 fous white: the feathers on the crown are of a deep brown, and 

 pretty long, with rufous tips, and fome of them margined with 

 rufous : hind part of the neck rufous greyj down the fhafts deep 



3 Z 2 brown : 



