246 coucal. 



purplish ; quills chestnut, tipped with brown ; tail more than eight 

 inches long, blackish green above, and black beneath, in shape 

 cuneiform ; legs black, the claw of the inner toe three quarters of an 

 inch long, strait as in the Lark. 



Inhabits Madagascar, and there called Tolu ; from the similarity 

 of the name to Houhou, it may possibly be the young of that bird, 

 if not of the chestnut species. 



10— STRAIT-HEELED COUCAL. 



Cuculus Senegalensis, Ind. Orn. i. 213. Lin. i. 169. Gm.Lin.i. 412. Bris. iv. 120. 



t. 8. f. I. Id. 8vo. ii. 75. Borowsk ii. 129. 4. 

 Polophilus Senegalensis, Senegal Coucal, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 53. 

 Coucou du Senegal, Rufalbin, PI. enl. 332. Buf. vi. 370. 

 Strait-heeled Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 525. 



LENGTH fifteen inches and a quarter. Bill black, fifteen lines 

 long. Plumage in general brownish, inclined to rufous above, and 

 to dirty white beneath ; head and neck above blackish, the middle 

 and shafts of the feathers deeper ; cheeks, throat, fore part and 

 jsides of the neck dirty white, with bright coloured shafts ; rump, 

 and upper tail coverts brown, striated across with deep brown ; under 

 parts from the breast dirty white, with very obscure, transverse strias ; 

 under tail coverts the same, but more obscure ; quills rufous, with 

 brown tips; tail eight inches long, cuneiform, black; legs greyish 

 brown, formed as in the last. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



In one, apparently the same, in the collection of Lord Stanley, 

 I observed the shafts of the feathers of the head and neck, to be 

 remarkably stiff; belly and thighs white ; vent pale dirty rufous ; 

 back and wings fine deep rufous ; tail coverts brown, undulated with 

 darker brown ; tail dusky black, rounded at the end ; legs black, 

 inner hind claw three quarters of an inch long, and but little bent. 



