cuckow. 27.9 



beneath white, edged with brown ; lower belly and under tail coverts 

 tinged with rufous ; wing coverts white, edged with brown ; quills 

 and scapulars transversely striated with brown and rufous ; tail cunei- 

 form, seven inches and a half long, pale rufous, crossed with oblique 

 bands of brown ; legs dirty greenish yellow. 



Inhabits Bengal ; there called Boutsallik. One similar to this in 

 the drawings of Major Roberts, was named Cuil, which is probably 

 a common name, as I have seen it put to other drawings of Cuckows 

 from India. I observed too, one of these called Manmudoo Couwele. 



One thought to be a female of this, and shot at Bengal, was 

 fifteen inches long, and weighed five ounces and a half. The tail 

 greatly cuneiform, and brown ; all the feathers crossed with sixteen 

 or eighteen yellowish bars : this was called Burra Koel : said to fly 

 by night. 



21— HEPATIC CUCKOW. 



Cuculus hepaticus, Ind.Orn.'u 215. Mus. Carls. Fasc. iii. t. 55. Tern. Man. d' Orn. 

 p. 235. Id. Ed. ii. 384. 



LENGTH thirteen inches and a half. Bill black ; plumage 

 above ferruginous, marked with undulated bars of black ; beneath 

 to the breast the same, but much paler ; belly and vent white, the 

 former spotted, the latter barred with black ; quills black and fer- 

 ruginous, barred alternate, ends black ; rump ferruginous, the feathers 

 reaching halfway on the tail, which is cuneiform; colour ferruginous, 

 barred with black; the end for half an inch black, but the very tips 

 white ; legs yellow. 



Native place uncertain. It may be remarked that this bird in 

 the general markings of the body, greatly resembles the young of 

 the Common Cuckow ; but in the tail it does not correspond. 



