cuckow. 319 



breadth; irides brown, round the eye bluish yellow; the feathers of 

 the chin and head are brown in the middle, and yellowish on the 

 sides, fifteen lines in length, forming a crest, which is generally 

 carried erect; feathers of the throat and neck yellowish in the middle, 

 and brown on the sides; back, rump, breast, belly, sides, thighs, and 

 upper and under tail coverts, as well as beneath the wings, pale yel- 

 lowish white ; quills and tail brown, consisting often feathers, tipped 

 with white ; legs sea-green, and scaly. M. d'Azara adds, that the 

 tail is white from the base for three inches, the two middle feathers 

 brown, the others black, with a white spot of about one inch at 

 the end. 



Inhabits Brazil, and extends to Paraguay, where it is called 

 Piririgua and Piririta ; for it pronounces Piririri in a laughing tone, 

 and sometimes Guaogua : at Buenos Ayres named Cocholote ; also 

 at Tucuman : the Portuguese at Brazil, call it Feitizeira ; by some, 

 Annu branco. It is a sedentary bird, and easily becomes domestic : 

 one has been kept in a cage, and fed with raw meat. We are told, 

 that it makes a nest, and rears its own young ; but beyond this we 

 have no description of that part of its ceconomy. 



78— SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus navius, Ind.Orn.'u 220. Lin. i. 170. Gm. Lin. i. 413. Bris.iv. 127. t. 9. 



f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 77. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 89. 

 Coucou brun varie de roux, Buf. vi. 411. 

 — — — tachete de Cayenne, PI. enl. 812. 

 Le Choche, Voy. d'Azara iv. No. 266. 

 Coua, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal, lxxiii. 

 Spotted Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 539. 



LENGTH ten inches and three quarters. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch long, black, with the sides rufous; the under mandible 

 wholly rufous; plumage in general rufous in two shades; the under 

 parts rufous white ; feathers of the crown deep brown, pretty long, 



