296 cuckow. 



small hole of entrance; but, he seems clear, that the bird must carry 

 the egg in the mouth, and by this means introduce it into the hole : 

 the egg is glossy white, and always deposited in the nest of some 

 small insectivorous bird, never into that of a granivorous one, although 

 the latter is more numerous than the former, and easier to be seen ; 

 for in Africa the granivorous ones are generally in large flocks, and 

 frequently live in society, with the nests united in the same place. 



I observe one of these in the collection of Mr. H. Brogden, in 

 which the whole head, below the eyes, and the neck behind, are 

 plain glossy green, the rest more dull green ; a small streak from bill 

 to the eye, and a large curved mark of white on the region of the 

 ears ; beneath from the chin pure white, with a greenish line, con- 

 tinued a little way from the gape ; lower belly, and over the thighs, 

 barred with glossy green, otherwise like the former description. 



This was received from Senegal, and seems much allied to the 

 following. 



45.— KLAAS'S CUCKOW. 



Le Coucou de Claas, Levail. Afr. v. 53. pi. 212. 



Cuculus Klaas, Gen. Zool.ix. p. 128. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxiii. 



SIZE of the Gilded Species, but the bill less curved, and smaller, 

 colour brown black ; irides yellow ; general colour of the plumage 

 above bright green, with the tinge of copper; over the eye, and 

 behind, an irregular longish streak of white, and a patch of the 

 same at the junction of the wing with the body ; all the under parts, 

 from chin to vent, white, except a few marks of green on the sides, 

 over the thighs, and some others of the same on the thigh feathers ; 

 greater quills dusky, spotted beneath with white, and bordered 

 outwardly with gilded green ; the tail is much rounded at the end, 

 and occupies less breadth than in the Gilded Species, from the webs 



