cuckow. 281 



neck before, breast, and belly white, barred with black ; tail brown, 

 the feathers spotted on each side of the shafts irregularly with black ; 

 legs yellow. 



Inhabits India. 



24— RUFOUS-SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus punctatus, Ind. Orn. i. 210. Lin. i. 170. Gin. Lin. i. 413. Gen. Zool. ix. 



p. 105. 

 Cuculus Indicus nee vius, Bris.W. 134. 1. 10. f. 2. Zrf.8vo.ii. 79. 

 Coucou brun picquete de roux, Bitf. vi. 377. PL enl. 771. 

 Rufous-spotted Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 517. 



LENGTH sixteen inches and a half. Bill horn-colour, hooked 

 at the end, with a kind of notch near the tip ; from the base, a 

 rufous band passes under the eyes, to the ears ; plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body brown, spotted with rufous ; beneath rufous, 

 transversely striated with blackish brown, least in number on the 

 belly ; tail cuneiform, eight inches and a quarter long, barred with 

 rufous arched bands on each side the shafts, all the feathers having 

 rufous ends ; legs grey brown. 



The female differs, in having the rufous spots above less 

 numerous, and beneath much paler than the male. 



Inhabits the East Indies, and Philippine Islands. 



25— PANAYAN SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus Panayus, Ind. Orn.i. 210. Gm.Lin.x. 413. Gen. Zool.ix. p. 106. 

 Coucou tachete de Panay, Son. Voy. 220. t. 78. 

 Panayan Spotted Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 517. 



THIS is two-thirds larger than our Cuckow. Bill black : irides 

 yellow ; body above very deep brown ; spotted with rufous yellow ; 



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