cuckow. 273 



The young male most resembles the female, but has, in some of 

 the under parts, a glossy reddish tinge. 



Young females are like the adult, but the colours less defined, 

 and paler. They are supposed to have but two young, as only that 

 number was seen with the old ones. Is chiefly found in deep woods, 

 and feeds on fruits and insects ; flies like a Jay, and with a cry not 

 unlike it ; met with in the forests of the great Cafire Country, and 

 is also seen at Madagascar. 



13 —CHINESE CUCKOW. 



Cu cuius Sinensis, Ind.Orn.'i. 217. Lin. i. 171. Gm. Lin.i. 418. Bris.lv. 157. 



1. 14. A. f.2. Id. Svo. ii. 85. Gerin. t. 80. 

 Sanhia de la Chine, Buf.vi. 389. 

 Chinese Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 530. Nat. Misc. pi. 277. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill near one inch, red, the upper 

 mandible beset with bristles, turned forwards ; irides red ; top of the 

 head white, marked with small blue spots ; the rest of the head and 

 throat blackish ; on each side of the head, behind the eye, a round 

 white spot; neck behind, back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts 

 fine blue ; on the latter a white spot, near the end of each feather ; 

 greater wing coverts, farthest from the body, white ; rump very pale 

 blue ; under parts of the body pure white ; quills half pale, and 

 half darker blue ; tail deep blue, with a roundish white spot near 

 the end of each feather ; the two middle ones exceed the next by 

 three inches and a quarter, and the outer is only one inch and three 

 quarters long ; legs red. 



Inhabits China. In a drawing of this bird, in the collection of 

 the late Mr. Pigou, it is called San a. 



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