314 cuckow. 



Mr. Abbot, who has been long resident at Savannah, in Georgia, 

 that it is not unfrequent about Burke Country, and sits on, 

 and hatches its own eggs : the nest is not uncommon, first to 

 be observed about the latter end of April, built in the fork of a 

 small oak, made of sticks, lined with moss, and over that dead 

 hiccory blossoms ; the eggs five in number, of a rough blue colour, 

 not deep : the length of one in my collection is one inch and a 

 quarter by one inch, very little smaller at one end than the other 



71.— RAIN CUCKOW. 



Cuculus pluvialis, Ind.Orn.l. 218. Gm. Lin.'i. 411. Gen. Zool.'vx.. p. 124. 



- Jamaicensis, Bris. iv. 114. Jrf.8vo.ii. 73. 

 Picus major leucophseus. Rail 182. 



Cue. Jamaic. major, Sloan. Jam. 312. t. 258. 1. Brown. Jam. 476. Klein. Av. 31. 1. 

 Le Coucou dit Vieillard, Bvf. vi. 398. 

 Rain Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 536. 



LESS than a Blackbird ; length from fifteen to seventeen inches. 

 Bill one inch long, black above, and white beneath ; the top of the 

 head covered with soft, downy, deep brown feathers ; the rest of the 

 upper parts, the wings, and two middle tail feathers cinereous olive ; 

 throat and fore part of the neck white, appearing, especially on the 

 throat, like a downy beard ;* the breast, and rest of the under parts 

 rufous; tail cuneiform, the outer feathers more than three inches 

 shorter than the middle ones, which are eight inches and three quarters 

 long; all, excepting the two middle, are black, with white ends, 

 and the outer one margined with white ; legs bluish black. 



Inhabits Jamaica, with the last, and both known by the name 

 of Old Man, and Rain Bird. 



* Whence, perhaps, the name of Old Mau. 



