cuckow. 299 



49— SHINING CUCKOW.— Pl. lvi. 



Cuculus lucidus, Lid. Orn.\. 215. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 126. pl. 26. 

 Shining Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 528. pl. 23. Cook's last Voy. i. 150. 



SIZE of a small Thrush ; length seven inches. Bill bluish ; 

 hides hazel ; upper part of the body rich gilded green, the under 

 white, transversely waved with green gold ; under tail coverts almost 

 white; quills and tail dusky brown ; the last short, scarcely exceeding 

 the wings in length ; legs bluish. 



Inhabits New Zealand, there called Poopo-arowro ; and is a very 

 scarce species. 



50.— SPLENDID CUCKOW. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill black, a little curved ; 

 plumage above glossy olive-brown ; beneath to the breast brown and 

 dusky white in waves, mixed with streaks on the chin and throat ; 

 belly and vent white, barred with glossy pale brown ; greater quills 

 brown, fringed with dusky white ; tail rounded, the two middle 

 feathers glossy olive-brown, the others pale ferruginous on the outer 

 webs, for more than half the length, the rest as the middle ones, with 

 two spots of white at the tips ; the outmost but one has an additional 

 white spot on the inner web, higher up ; but the exterior has also the 

 outer web indented brown and white ; and on the inner web four or 

 five curved white marks the whole of its length, reaching to the shaft ; 

 the wings extend two-thirds on the tail ; legs black. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — A fine perfect specimen in the collection 

 of Mr. Harrison, as well as in that of Mr. H. Brogden. 



Qq2 



