278 cuckow. 



white; from thence to vent white ; tail cuneiform, brown, the two 

 middle feathers seven inches long, the rest shorten by degrees, and are 

 tipped with white ; legs black. 



Inhabits Andalusia, and the opposite Coast of Barbary; has been 

 shot on the Rock of Gibraltar, but only seen there at certain seasons. 

 Mr. White met with one fifteen inches in length. 



A. — Length fourteen inches. Bill black ; head and sides of the 

 neck, below the nape, black-brown, inclining to ash-colour, from 

 the forehead to middle of the crown ; from the gape, a pale whitish 

 stripe over the eye, to near the nape ; round the back of the neck a 

 pale grey band; back, wing coverts, and bastard wing brown, marked 

 with white at the ends ; quills black, some of them edged with rufous, 

 and tipped with white ; chin and throat pale rufous ; from thence all 

 all beneath white ; tail black, cuneiform ; all but the two middle 

 feathers marked with a pear-shaped spot of white ; the wings reach 

 one-fourth on the tail ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Senegal;* in the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. — The 

 food of these birds is by no means mentioned, nor any hint given why 

 Linnseus should call it Glandarius, unless he supposed it to feed on 

 acorns. 



20— INDIAN SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus scolopaceus, Ind. Orn. i. 209. Lin. i. 170. Gm. Lin. 415. Gen. Zool. ix. 



p. 95. 

 Cuculus Bengalensis naevius, Bris. iv. 132. Id. 8vo. ii. 78. Klein. 31. 7. 

 Coucou tachete de Bengale, Boutsallik, Bitf.vx. 372. PI. enl. 586. 

 Brown and Spotted Indian Cuckow, Edw. pi. 59. 

 Indian Spotted Cuckow, Gen. Syn.'n. 516. 



\NO larger than a Thrush ; but fourteen inches in length. Bill 

 dirty yellow green, and one inch long; body above brown, clouded, 



* Der Africanische Cuckguck, Borowsk. ii. 125. 



