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the very tip pale rufous white ; chin white ; breast and belly pale 

 brownish red ; thighs crossed with several pale rufous bars ; the 

 legs yellow. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. 



In another of the same size, the general colour above is rufous 

 brown ; margins of the feathers pale ; the forehead, and a patch 

 over the eye, pale ash; under parts rufous white, marked with 

 dusky streaks on the neck and breast ; and barred with the same on 

 the thighs ; quills dusky, with six or seven dull rufous bars ; tail 

 brown buff, at the end a broad bar of black ; above this three 

 or four others, curving downwards on each side of the shaft, and 

 bounded below with buff, tips brown buff; the bill is pale, with 

 the end dusky ; the irides are hazel, and the lids surrounded with 

 a yellow rim. 



This was also among the drawings of General Hardwicke, and 

 called Papeeah Assil, and Bychan ; probably a female. 



6— SIRKEER CUCKOW. 



LENGTH nineteen inches at least. Bill stout, hooked, red, 

 with a yellow tip ; round the eye dark ; plumage on the upper parts 

 dusky, with a tinge of purple ; beneath paler, inclining to rufous ; 

 tail cuneiform, bending downwards a little ; the two middle feathers, 

 as well as the quills, are like the back, but deeper coloured ; the 

 rest of the tail feathers black, with the ends, for three quarters of an 

 inch, white, and all of them rounded at the tips; legs black. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. — In a drawing, apparently 

 of the same bird, the*upper parts were paler, beneath pale rufous; 

 chin and throat dashed down the shafts with black lines ; tail as in 

 the other, the ends of the side feathers white for more than an inch ; 

 legs pale blue. 



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