C U C K O W. 



am : under tail Coverts deep cheftnut brown : quills and tail as 

 the upper parts ; the firft tipped with brown, the laft with white, 

 and much cuneated : legs and claws grey brown. 



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DUFFON mentions likewife another variety, with a red bill : an 

 afli-coloured head : throat and breaft rufous : and the reft of 

 the under parts cinereous black. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



41. 

 Var. B. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Coucou noir de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vi. p. 416. — PI. ml, 512. 



ENGTH eleven inches. Bill ten lines In length, and of a red 

 colour : irides red : general colour of the plumage black : 

 the parts beneath lefs dark than thofe above, inclining to am : 

 upper wing coverts bordered with white: tail a little wedge- 

 {haped, and exceeds the wings, when clofed, about three inches. 

 This bird is faid to have a tubercle at the fore part of the wing. 



It is a folitary filent bird; for the moil part being found 

 perched on trees which grow near the water, and is not near fo 

 reftlefs as the major part of the Cuckozv tribe ; by which it may 

 feem fomewhat allied to the Barbet. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



42. 



CAYENNE 



BLACK 



C. 



Description. 



Manners. 



Place 



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