264 cuckow. 



white ; belly and thighs barred pale blue grey and white ; tail 

 black, rounded, with three oval spots of white on the middle of each 

 feather, one at the tip ; but the two middle feathers are not marked 

 with white at the ends ; legs yellow, claws black. 



Inhabits India ; called at Calcutta, Dunmun. In some India 

 drawings one very similar is called Bhoungra. 



A. — This differs in having the quills dusky instead of brown ; 

 and the tail feathers with three roundish spots on the shafts ; and all 

 of them fringed with white at the tips. 



Inhabits India : at first sight carries the appearance of the com-? 

 inori Cuckow, but disagrees in some particulars; the first quill as 

 in that, is shorter than the rest, but the tail is essentially different, 

 being spotted only in the middle of the feathers, whereas in the 

 European Species there are several spots of white on the webs on 

 each side of the shafts. 



M, Levaillant gives the figure of the young bird, which is rufous 

 and barred, differing from the adult, in the manner of the common 

 one. It may be observed, that the spots down the shafts of the tail 

 feathers are six or seven in number ; and the tail quite cuneiform ; 

 the longest feather four inches and half; the shorter less than two. 



3— SOKAGU CUCKOW. 



LENGTH twelve or thirteen inches. Bill yellow ; general 

 colour of the plumage above bluish slate or dove-colour; the feathers 

 of the back margined with rufous ; greater wing coverts, and second 

 quills, marked on both webs with triangular rufous spots ; greater 

 quills plain ; under parts of the body to the thighs pale slate-colour, 

 margined deeply with white, beneath the eye, from the gape, a large 



