288 cuckow. 



forming a crest; plumage in general black, except the base of the 

 first four or five quills, which are white, and form a serrated spot on 

 the outer edge of the wing ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 seven inches long, the outmost only four and a half; thigh feathers 

 long, hanging a good way over the legs, which are black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; in some the tail is shorter than 

 in others, pehaps owing to sex or age. 



36— COROMANDEL CRESTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus melanoleucos, Ind. Orn. i. 211. Gm. Lin. i. 416. Gen. Zool. ix. pi. 23. 



Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxiii. 

 Jacobin huppe de Coromandel, Buf. vi. 380. PL enl. 872. 

 Le Coucou Edolio, Levail. Afr. v. p. 39. pi. 207, 208. 

 Coromandel crested Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 520. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black ; head crested ; upper 

 parts of the body black, the under white ; on the edge of the wing 

 a spot of white ; tail cuneiform, tipped with white ; wings reach half 

 way thereon ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the coast of Coromandel; and known, with others, 

 under the name of Coukeel ; I observe that the head is crested at the 

 back part only, and in one bird both upper and under tail coverts 

 are white; the quills in some are brown, in others black ; called on 

 the coast, Papia or Pewa ; at Hindustan, Papuea or Popheya : said 

 to lay the eggs in the nest of the Chottoreah Thrush, * they are plain 

 greenish in colour ; and the Cuckow said generally to destroy those 

 of the Thrush, when it deposits its own : comes in May, and remains 

 till the rainy season is over : lives on Grasshoppers, white Ants, &c. 

 I observe one in which the white passes on each side of the neck 

 almost to the back part. 



* Turdus Canorus, or Crying Thrush. 



