310 CUCKOW. 



65.— BARRED-TAILED CUCKOW. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill pale, moderately bent, 

 but more so at the tip; plumage above dark ash-colour; beneath, 

 and under wing coverts pale rufous; quills dusky, formed as in the 

 last described, the first being very short, base of them within white ; 

 tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers five inches and a half long, 

 the exterior only three and a half, colour black ; the feathers, on 

 both sides of the webs, indented with white, appearing as bars. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — The two last in the possession of M. de 

 Fichtel. 



It appears that they vary in size, as well as feathers. One, 

 scarcely more than nine inches, had a black bill ; above ash-colour, 

 the feathers with brown ends ; beneath, and under wing coverts 

 cinereous, and reddish buff", in obsolete waves ; vent plain ; quills 

 dusky, some way from the base white ; the first from its insertion 

 two inches long ; the second shorter by three quarters of an inch ; 

 the third near four inches long ; the rest as usual ; tail pale rufous 

 white, crossed with ten or twelve oblique dusky bars, at the end a 

 broader one ; the two middle feathers plain dusky, serrated on the 

 edges ; the quills reach three-fourths on the tail ; legs weak, the 

 feathers hanging a good way on the shins before. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and is probably a young bird of the 

 Barred-tailed. 



66— BLUE-HEADED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus cyanocephalus, Ltd. Orn. Sup. p.xxx. Gen.Zool.'ix. p. 110. 

 Blue-headed Cuckow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 137. 



SIZE uncertain ; length nine inches. Bill somewhat bent, and 

 pale blue ; the upper part of the head, taking in the eyes, the sides, 



