298 cuckow. 



47— CUPREOUS CUCKOW. 



Cuculus cupreus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxix. Lev. Mus. pi. p. 159. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 129. 



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

 Cupreous Cuckow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 134. 



THIS is nearly the size of a Lark, but longer, and more delicate. 

 Bill black ; head, neck, and upper parts of the body bright copper- 

 colour, with a metallic splendour, being glossed with gold, and a 

 red tinge of copper; the feathers of a rounded shape, and so 

 disposed, as to resemble scales ; belly and thighs of a beautiful 

 jonquil yellow ; tail slightly cuneiform, one or two of the exterior 

 feathers marked at the tip with a triangular spot of white ; the legs 

 are black. 



The above was in the Leverian Museum, supposed to come from 

 Africa. One of these, in Mr. Dent's drawings, was seven inches and 

 a half in length ; tail nearly even. 



48— AFRICAN GREEN CUCKOW. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, curved, 

 and blackish; general colour of the head, neck, wings, the rest 

 of the upper parts, and tail, fine gilded green ; the breast, and all 

 beneath fine jonquil yellow, growing paler towards the vent ; tail 

 greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers wholly gilded green, and 

 ending in a point; the next one inch and a half shorter, with the tip 

 white, and rounded ; the exterior two inches and a half, barred 

 alternate green and white, four bars in all, with the ends white ; the 

 others intermediate, with much the same markings ; the legs pale 

 ash-colour. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



