306 cuckow. 



on the upper parts of the body brown ; the head dashed with 

 ferruginous, perpendicular stripes; the rest barred, and blotched 

 with the same ; the middle of the feathers of the neck darkest ; over 

 the eye a white streak, and a dash of the same along the under jaw, 

 arising at the nostrils ; quills marked with ferruginous spots; chin, 

 and middle of the throat white ; sides of the neck, the breast, belly, 

 and thighs white, streaked with brown ; the streaks broadest on the 

 breast and belly ; vent plain white ; under tail coverts pale buff; the 

 upper as the back, reaching one-third on the tail, which is nine 

 inches long, and greatly cuneiform ; all the feathers of it crossed 

 with numerous, ferruginous brown bars, and tipped with white ; the 

 wings, when closed, reach on it one-third ; legs greenish. 



Inhabits Otaheite, where it is called Areva-reva ; also found at 

 Harvey Isle,* and Ton go taboo, where it is called Tayarabbo ; it is 

 likewise seen at New-Zealand. f In one of these we observed the tail 

 feathers to be remarkably worn bare, so as to leave the shafts at the 

 ends almost destitute ; the streak over the eye, and that along the 

 under jaw less visible : probably this may differ in sex. 



60— SPOTTED-TAILED CUCKOW. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill black, one inch long, bent; 

 nostrils in the middle, to which the feathers reach ; the plumage 

 brownish black, mottled on the outer webs with greyish and light 

 rufous, in narrow patches : crown and nape black brown, mottled 

 with greyish white, or pale rufous ; behind the eye a greyish white 

 band, one inch long, and a quarter of an inch broad ; general colour 

 of the under parts, from the chin, pale rufous ; under the eye, and 

 sides of the neck, to the wing, grey, rufous, and brown-black 



* Cook's last Voy. i. 220. Id. 33. f Id- 150. 



