324 cuckow. 



82— WHITE-RUMPED CUCKOW. 



Cuculus tenebrosus, Ind. Orn.\. 221. Gm.Lin.i. 417. Pall.n.nord Beytr.m. s. 3. 



1. 1. f. 1. Gen. Zool.ix. p. 89. 

 Petit Coucou noir de Cayenne, Bvf. vi. 417. PI. enl. 505. 

 Tamatia, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxvii. 

 White-rumped black Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 544. 



LENGTH eight inches and a quarter. Bill one inch, a little 

 curved, and pointed, black ; the plumage wholly black, except the 

 lower part of the back, and rump, belly, thighs, and vent, all of which 

 are white; on the belly the white is separated from the black, by a 

 rufous orange band ; tail under three inches, much rounded, and but 

 little exceeds the wings in length ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Cayenne and Brazil ; makes the nest in the hole of a 

 tree, sometimes in the ground, if it finds a hole ready made ; passes 

 the day perched on a solitary branch of a tree, in an open spot, 

 motionless, except when collecting insects, on which it feeds. 



A. — Length five inches and three quarters. Bill three-eighths of 

 an inch long, and pointed at the end ; nostrils small and round, but 

 in some measure covered by a few bristles coming forwards over 

 them ; plumage in general glossy black ; lower half of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts white ; lower half of the belly fine 

 rufous, to beyond the thighs; vent, and under tail coverts dusky 

 white; under wing coverts white; tail two inches long, even, or 

 scarcely rounded ; the wings reach at least to the end of it, if not 

 beyond. 



B. — Another was six inches in length. The bill flattened on 

 the sides, and sharp-ridged at top ; the head, neck, and all above 



