cuckow. 325 



glossy steel black; breast ash-colour; the belly deep rufous; under 

 wing coverts, lower part of the back, upper and under tail coverts, 

 and vent white ; the upper coverts reach to half the length of the 

 tail, which is two inches long, even at the end, and the wings exceed 

 it in length by full three quarters of an inch ; legs weak, as in the 

 Swallow. 



Inhabits Berbice, there called Saebe saebe. I have seen two 

 specimens : in one of them the under wing coverts and vent were 

 dusky white. A specimen of this last is in the collection of Lord 

 Stanley. 



This and the last are not allowed by M. Temminck to remain 

 among the Cuckow Tribe, but rather as being more allied to the 

 Tamatia, next akin to the Barbet Genus ; it may be so, but as 

 they have hitherto been received by authors as pertaining to the 

 Cuckows, we are not inclined to remove them from that situation. 



83. —HONEY CUCKOW. 



Cuculus Indicator, Ind. Orn. i. 218. Gm. Lin. i. 418. Mill. III. t. 24. f. A. Bor. ii. 



130. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 138. 

 Coucou Indicateur, Buf. vi. 392. 

 Honey Guide, Phil. Trans, lxvii. p. 38. pi. 1. Sparm. Voy. ii. 191. Gent. Mag. xlrii. 



t. p. 468. 

 Indicateur, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxiii. 

 Honey Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. 533. Id. Sup. 101. Id. Sup. ii. 135. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill one inch and a half, rather thick, 

 brown towards the base, and yellowish at the tip, at the bottom a 

 few bristles ; eyelids naked, black ; irides ferruginous grey ; top of 

 the head grey, the feathers somewhat broad, and short; chin, throat, 

 and breast dirty white, on the latter a tinge of green ; back and 



