coucal. 247 



This came from Senegal ; is also not uncommon in Abyssinia, in 

 the mountainous districts, among- the thick Caper, and other thorny 

 bushes. 



11— ANTIGUAN COUCAL. 



Polophilus viridis, Green Coucal, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 55. 



Coucou vert d'Antigue, Son. Voy. 181. pi. 80. Ind.Orn.i. 213. y. 



Egyptian Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 52-3. 16. B. Id. Sup. p. 100. 



LENGTH nineteen inches and a half. Bill stout, curved, and 

 black; nostrils almost covered with short feathers ; the upper eyelid 

 furnished with eight or nine bristles ; head and neck dusky brown,* 

 and the feathers narrow ; the fore part, as far as the breast, marked 

 down the shafts with indistinct pale spots and bars, the hind part 

 plain ; wing coverts deep rufous, obscurely barred with dusky ; on 

 the inside of the wing a short, blunt spur ; quills barred rufous and 

 blackish alternate, about twenty of each ; tail long, cuneiform, the 

 outer feathers measuring only five inches ; colour black, crossed with 

 numerous, oblique, dusky white lines, not corresponding on each 

 side of the shaft ; belly, thighs, upper and under tail coverts dusky, 

 crossed with numerous white lines ; legs short, stout, rough ; claw of 

 the inner toe strait, and one inch in length. 



Inhabits China ; described from one in possession of Sir Joseph 

 Banks. I observed, too, among India drawings, one full eighteen 

 inches long: general colour black ; the wings deep rufous; tail black, 

 cuneiform, with eight or ten whitish bars on each side of the shafts ; 

 this was called Mahoca. Among the drawings of Lady Impey, there 

 was one greatly similar, from the Coromandel Coast ; this is said to 



* According to Sonnerat very dull green. 



