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oval bed of white ; from the bottom of this, across the throat, a 

 narrow, curved, rufous band ; vent white ; tail slightly cuneiform, 

 bluish ash-colour, crossed with five bands of black, curving down T 

 wards on each side of the shafts, and bounded below with rufous ; 

 legs yellow. 



Inhabits India ; called Sokagu. — Among the drawings of Sir J. 

 Anstruther, are others, which probably differ in age or sex ; but the 

 tails exactly the same. In one the ground-colour is pale rufous- 

 brown, the feathers margined and spotted as in the former, but with 

 yellow-brown; patch under the eye grey, extending to the throat; 

 on the nape a little mixture of white; body beneath pale ash- 

 colour, marked with roundish black spots on the sides of the neck 

 and body ; on the thighs and vent small dusky crescents ; inside of 

 the quills black and white indented ; this also is called Sokagu. In 

 another specimen the colours as in the last, but all the under parts 

 dusky white, marked with longitudinal streaks of pale brown : in 

 all these the eye is surrounded with a circle of white dots, which 

 appear to be bare. 



4— BHROU CUCKOW. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill one inch and a half, pale lead- 

 colour ; top of the head, taking in the eyes, pale-ash ; chin dusky 

 white, surrounding the lower part of the head and nape ; upper parts 

 of the back and wings dark dove-colour ; bend of the wing white, 

 with five large spots of the same outwardly, about the middle ; 

 beneath to the belly rufous white; crossed with numerous, pale, 

 irregular, rufous lines ; vent nearly white ; tail cuneiform, four inches 

 and three quarters long, crossed with, five blackish bars, bounded 

 on the lower part with dusky white, tip rufous white ; legs yellow ; 

 the wings reach one-third on the tail. 



TOL. III. 



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