CUCK0W. 301 



52 —METALLINE CUCKOW. 



THE length of this beautiful little Cuckow is only five inches 

 and a half. Bill flesh-colour ; plumage above fine gilded, bronzed 

 brown, obscurely mixed and barred with gilded green ; over the eye, 

 from the nostrils, a white streak, and in the direction of the under 

 jaw, another; on the middle of the wing a patch of white, from 

 some of the feathers being white on the outer webs ; quills brown, 

 barred within with rufous ; tail short, glossy, greenish brown, the 

 ouier feather with two or three white spots on both webs, and the 

 next the same on the inner web and tip, the third on the inner only ; 

 the wings reach nearly to the end of the tail ; chin dusky white, 

 dashed with gilded brown ; belly and under wing coverts whitish, 

 spotted, and barred with the same; legs brown. 



Inhabits Africa. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



53— NOISY CUCKOW. 



Cuculus clamosus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxx. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 10S. 



Criard, Son. Voy. Ed. 8vo. ii. p. 6. 



Le Coucou Criard, Levail. Afr. v. p. 28, pi. 204. 205. Tern. Man. Ed.'u. Anal, p.lxxiii. 

 Noisy Cuckow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 136. 



THIS is said to be wholly of a brown colour, but M. Levaillant 

 describes it fully. Length nine inches and a half. Bill dusky black, 

 pale at the base, with a slight notch at the tip ; irides chestnut ; 

 general colour of the plumage fine blue black ; greater quills deep 

 brown ; tail cuneiform, black, the feathers tipped with white ; the 

 quills reach about halfway on the tail ; the thigh feathers hang over 

 the bend of the joint ; legs pale brown. 



