270 cuckow. 



10.— SOLITARY CUCKOW. 



Le Coucou Solitaire, Levail. Afr. v. p. 35. pi. 206. 



Cuculus solitarius, Solitary Cuckow, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 84. pi. 18. 



LENGTH near nine inches. Bill brown, yellowish beneath at 

 the base; irides brown ; plumage dusky brown, inclining' to grey 

 on the head and nape ; back, wings, and tail brown ; quills and 

 tail darker, the last slightly cuneiform, the feathers with four or five 

 white spots on the outer web, except the two middle ones, but all 

 are white at the tip ; chin grey ; throat pale rufous, crossed with 

 some dusky bars ; breast, belly, and thighs pale rufous white, barred 

 with dusky ; vent and under tail coverts plain rufous white. 



In the female, the under parts are rufous, barred with brown, 

 and the marks on the tail smaller. 



Young birds are rufous brown above, and pale rufous beneath, 

 with bars of a deeper colour. 



M. Levaillant thinks this may be a young bird of the Cape 

 Cuckow, and says, that the note of the male is rather plaintive, 

 like the syllables Cou-a-ach, and that the female has no song ; the 

 male perches on the lower branches of trees, and utters his note 

 repeatedly ; it is a solitary species, as Mr. L. only met with one male 

 and female, in a large district. 



11— MADAGASCAR CUCKOW. 



Cuculus cristatus, Ind. Orn. i. 212. Lin. i. 171. Gm. Lin. i. 420. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 118. 

 Cuculus cristatus Madag. Bris. iv. 149. t. 12. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 83. Gerin. t. 77. 

 Coucou huppe de Madagascar, Coua, Bitf. vi. 3G5. t. 16. PL enl. 5S9. 

 Le Coua, male, Levail. Afr. v. 67. pi. 217. 

 Madagascar crested Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 522. 



SIZE of a Jay ; length fourteen inches ; breadth seventeen. Bill 

 one inch long, black ; tongue pointed, cartilaginous ; nostrils placed 



