C U C K O \V, 



T ENGTH nine inches. Bill near one inch long, bent, and 

 of a black colour : the head, neck, and upper parts of the 

 body, are brown, and fomewhat glofiy ,- every feather marked with 

 a pale rufous fpot at the tips : the wings and tail are brown, but 

 darker than the reft ; and the feathers fpotted at the tips like the 

 others : the upper tail coverts reach a great way on the tail, which 

 is cuneiform in fhape : the belly and vent are dirty white : the 

 legs are pretty long, and of a brown colour. 



This, moft likely, inhabits Cayenne, as I faw it among various 

 other birds from that part. 



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Description. 



Placb. 



Cuculus Dominicus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 170, N° 13. 



Le Coucou de St. Domingue, Br!/, orn. iv. p. no. N° 2. 



Le Cendrillard, Buf. oif. vi. p. 413. 



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ST. DOMINGO 



C. 



CIZE of a Thrum: length ten inches and a half. Bill an inch Description. 



and a quarter long, grey brown : plumage above grey brown ,* 

 beneath pale afh-colour: quills rufous, tipped and margined with 

 grey brown: tail cuneated, five inches and a quarter long; the 

 two middle feathers as the back; the others black, with white 

 tips ; and the outer one white on the outer margin : legs and 

 claws grey brown. 



Inhabits Guiana, St. Domingo, and Louijiana, Places. 



Buffon mentions one which was in the collection of M. Mauduit, & Variety. 

 of Paris, and was rather bigger. The under parts were wholly 

 white, and the bill not fo long as that of the other. 



Cuculus 



