312 cuckow. 



68— HORNED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus cornutus, Ind. Orn.i. 216. Lin. i. 171. Gm. Lin. i. 422. Bris.iv 145. 



7d.8vo.ii. 82. Ge». Zool. ix. p. 121. 

 Atingaguacu mucu, Raii 165. 2. TFi//. 146. t. 38. Id. Engl. 198. Buf. vi. 409. 

 Horned Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 530. 



SIZE of a Thrush ; length twelve inches. Bill a little bent at 

 the end, and greenish yellow ; irides sanguineous ; head, and all 

 above soot-coloured; on the head the feathers are long, forming a 

 double crest, resembling horns, which the bird can erect at will ; 

 throat, neck before, breast, belly, and under tail coverts cinereous ; 

 quills and tail soot-colour, the latter darker, composed often feathers, 

 nine inches in length, and tipped with white; the outer ones very 

 short; legs ash-coloured, covered before halfway with feathers. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



69.— SHARP-CRESTED CUCKOW. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, much 

 bent ; head, level with the gape, deep green, the feathers rising above 

 the crown into a crest an inch long, lessening by degrees behind, and 

 ending in white; under parts of the body, from the chin white, passing 

 round the neck as a collar, but the belly, thighs, and vent incline 

 to ash-colour ; sides of the neck yellow ; back, scapulars, and tail 

 greenish black ; wings tawny; quills blue black within, with a mix- 

 ture of white, forming a streak near the scapulars ; tail cuneiform, 

 six inches in length, the outer feathers four inches, colour greenish 

 black; all the feathers tipped with white; the wings reach about 

 one-fourth on the tail ; legs ash-colour. 



From the drawings of Mr. Woodford, it seems to approach much 

 to the Horned Cuckow, or between that and the Collared Species. 



