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CUCKOW. 



22.— CHINESE SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus maculatus, Ind. Orn. i. 209. Gm.Lin.'i. 415. Gen. Zool.lx. p. 102. 

 Coucou tachete de la Chine, Buf. vi. 378. PL enl. 764. 

 Chinese Spotted Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 516. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill nearly one inch a half, blackish 

 above, yellow beneath; upper parts of the head, and neck blackish, 

 spotted with white about the eyes ; rest of the body above deep 

 greenish grey, marked with white, and glossed with gilded brown ; 

 throat and breast regularly variegated brown and white; the rest of 

 the under parts barred with the same ; tail even at the end, six inches 

 long, and barred with the same colours ; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits China. 



A. — Among General Hardwicke's drawings is a Variety, near 

 sixteen inches long. Bill pale, stout; irides red ; plumage in general 

 deep brown, marked with numerous spots of white ; the quills 

 transversely barred with white, the ends deep brown ; the belly and 

 thighs whitish, marked with curved dark spots, pointing downwards ; 

 tail dark, crossed with eleven or twelve narrow white bars, on each 

 side of the shaft, curving downwards, the ends even ; the quills reach 

 one-fourth from the base ; legs pale blue. 



Inhabits India ; found at Futtehghur, in June. 



23— SONNERATS CUCKOW. 



Cueulus Sonneratii, Ind. Orn. i. 215. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 111. 

 Petit Coucou des Indes, Son. Voy. Lid. ii. 211. 

 Sonnerat's Cuckow. Gen. Syn. Sup. 102. 



SIZE of a Blackbird. Bill and irides yellow ; head, and neck 

 behind, back, and wings red brown, crossed with streaks of black ; 



