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and back part of the neck, deep blue, inclining to blackish ; the 

 rest of the upper parts pale brown, dotted on the back with white, 

 and crossed with narrow bars of the same on the wings and tail, 

 which last is long, and a little rounded at the end ; the under parts 

 of the body are white, transversely marked with narrow dusky lines ; 

 the throat and fore part of the neck incline to orange ; legs bluish, 

 stout, and scaly. 



Inhabits New South Wales, but is probably scarce, as Mr. White 

 met with only one of this description ; but at the same time another, 

 of a similar form and size, and of glossy black colour, was taken, 

 and it was supposed that the two differed only in sex. 



67.— PACIFIC CUCKOW. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch long from the gape, the 

 colour pale brown ; nostrils five-eighths from the tip ; general colour 

 of the plumage brown above, mottled with pale ferruginous, from 

 each feather being margined irregularly, on both webs, with that 

 colour; quills brown, dotted on the outer webs with pale ferruginous, 

 and barred on the inner with white : lower part of the back pale, 

 streaked with brown ; breast and belly white, the first streaked with 

 dusky brown ; tail cuneiform, six inches long, the outer feather only 

 four ; colour brown, margins dotted with white, tips white ; the legs 

 pale brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and described from a specimen in the 

 collection of M. de Fichtel. 



