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C U C K O W/ 



43- 



WHITE- 



RUMPED 



BLACK 



C. 



Description. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



Le petit Coucou noir de Cayenne, Buf. pi/, vi. p. 417.— PL en!. 505. 



ENGTH eight inches and a quarter. Bill above an inch, 

 and dufky. This bird is wholly black, except the lower part 

 of the back and rump, the belly, thighs, and vent, all of which are 

 white : on the belly the white is feparated from the black by a 

 kind of orange band : tail fcarcely three inches long, cuneated, 

 and exceeds the length of the wings but very little : the legs are 

 yellow. 



This too inhabits Cayenne. In manners it imitates the laft, as 

 well as the places it is found in. It pafTes the day perched on a 

 folitary branch of a tree, in an open fpot, without any motion, 

 except what is merely necefiary in collecting the infects on which 

 ic feeds. It builds in the hole of a tree, and fometimes in a hole 

 in the ground, if it finds one already made. 



44. 



RED-HEADED 



C. 



Description. 



Place. 



Red-headed Cuckow, Ind. Zool. t. 6. 



T ENGTH fixteen inches : weight four ounces. Bill much 

 arched, ftrong, and of a greenifh yellow colour : crown and 

 part of the cheeks bright crimfon, entirely furrounded by a band 

 of white: hind part of the head and neck black, marked with 

 fmall fpots of white: fore part of the neck entirely black: back 

 and wings black : tail very long, unequal, the lower part black; 

 ends white: breaft and belly white : legs pale blue. 

 Inhabits Ceylon, where it is called Malkoha. Lives on fruits. 



Cuculus 



