240 COUCAL. 



bands ; the feathers of the head, neck, and breast thick, stiff, and 

 glossy on the sides; quills banded alternately with rufous brown, and 

 rufous yellow ; tail cuneiform, ten inches long, black brown, the ends 

 of the feathers dirty white, and crossed with from sixteen to twenty 

 rufous grey bars ; the greatest number on the two middle feathers ; 

 under parts of the body, from the breast, upper and under tail 

 coverts, light fulvous brown, barred with dusky; wings short, reaching 

 only to the upper tail coverts ; legs stout, scaly ; the hind claw two 

 inches long, rather stout, and somewhat hooked. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of M. Temminck. 



2— PHEASANT COUCAL. 



Cucuhis Phasianus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxx. 



Centropus Phasianns, Tern. Anal. p. lxxiv. 



Polophilus Phasianus, Pheasant Coucal, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 48. pi. 11. Zool. Misc. pi. 46. 



Pheasant Cuckow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 137. 



LENGTH seventeen or eighteen inches. Bill, head, and all 

 beneath fine black, the first stout at the base, and curved ; back and 

 wings varied with rufous, yellow, brown, and black, mixed in the 

 manner of the blending of the Woodcock ; tail long, and barred 

 elegantly with the same colours ; legs dusky black ; toes placed as 

 in the Cuckow Genus, but the hind claws are pretty long, and less 

 hooked than the forward ones, resembling, in this, the Egyptian 

 Coucal, which, however, differs materially in colour, as in that bird 

 the back and wings are plain rufous, and the tail, though long and 

 cuneiform, is wholly black. 



Inhabits New South Wales; called, by the English there, the 

 Pheasant. 



