C U C K O W. 



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Cuculus Brafilienfis, Z/». %?. i. p. 171. N° 18. 



Le Coucou rouge hupe du Brefil. Brif. orn. iv. p. 154. N° 25. 



Le Couroucoucou, Buf oif. vi. p. 298. 



Cuculus Brafilienfis, venuftifl". piftus, Seba. vol. i. 102. t. 66. f. 2. 



45 • 

 RED-CRESTED 



C. 



'"TpHIS is fomewhat lefs than the former : length ten inches. 

 Bill a little bent ; half an inch long, and of a light red 

 colour: the head is of a pale red, and adorned with a creft of a 

 deeper red, variegated with black : parts above deep red ; be- 

 neath pale red ; with a tinge of yellow on the belly : upper wing 

 coverts pale red, mixed with yellow : quills and tail yellow, with 

 a made of black. 



Buffon remarks, that in Seda's figure, the toes are difpofed three 

 and one ; but, as the name of Cuckow is given it, they mould 

 have been placed two and two. 



Description* 



Caculus Perfa, Lin. Syjl. 171. N° 17. 



Le Coucou verd hupe de Guinee, Brif. orn, Iv. 152. N" 24. 



Le Touraco, Buf. oif. vi. 300. t. 15. 



Le Touraco de Guinee, PL enl. 601. 



Crown Bird from Mexico, Albin. ii. t. 1.9. 



Touraco, Ediu. i. t. 7. 



46. 



TOURACO 



C. 



'T~ S HIS bird is about the fize of a Magpie. The bill fhortifh ; 

 "*" the upper mandible bent ; colour reddifh brown : noftrils 

 covered by feathers : irides hazel brown : eyelids furrounded with 

 red caruncles : the head, throat, neck, upper part of the back, 

 ■breaft, part of the belly, and the fides, are covered with foft 



4 A filky 



Description. 



