cuckow. 309 



Inhabits the North Coast of New-Holland ; met with there by 

 Capt. Flinders, during his voyage on discovery. — In Mr. Bullock's 

 Museum. 



At Mr. Leadbeater's is one allied to the above, if not the same; 

 length one foot. In this the bill is stout, bent at the tip ; top of the 

 head yellow-buff; middle of the nape brown ; behind the eye a broad, 

 brown streak, reaching to the shoulder ; plumage in general above 

 brown and buff, irregularly barred ; quills the same, furnished with 

 spots of white on the exterior margins, about fifteen in all ; neck 

 pale buff, with some narrow, pale bars of brown ; belly pale buff, 

 plain. The tail consists of ten feathers, cuneiform, the outer two 

 inches shorter than the two middle ones, pale buff, marked with 

 some narrow pale bars of brown ; legs brown, stout. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; called the Spotted Cuckow. 



64 —PORT JACKSON CUCKOW. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, 

 moderately curved, brown ; plumage above brown, beneath very 

 pale ash ; through the eye a pale brown streak ; quills dusky, the 

 first half the length of the second, but the third the longest; within 

 all barred with white, except about one inch and a half from the 

 tip; tail cuneiform, nine inches long, the outer feather only four 

 inches and a half, all of them marked on each web with triangular 

 white dots, and the tips white ; on the outer edge of the wing coverts 

 a spot of white ; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; said to have been met about Port 

 Jackson. 



