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coverts nearly black ; tail the same, with a blue grey tinge, the outer 

 feather black on the inner web ; on the outer white, with a black 

 serrated streak, indenting the white like a saw, somewhat in the 

 manner of the Fantailed Cuckow, though opposite in every direction ; 

 for in that the black curvatures tend upwards, in this downwards • 

 in the former, the outer web is black, in the latter white ; shape of 

 the tail cuneiform. It has only three toes, two placed forwards and 

 one backAvards ; legs brown. 



Supposed to inhabit India, and is in the collection of Lady Clive. 

 I find it also among the drawings of Gen. Davies, taken from one in 

 the collection of Mr. Thompson. 



88.— TRIDACTYLE CUCKOW. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill horn-coloured, bent downwards ; 

 head and neck pale, dirty, yellow-oker ; irides brown ; hind neck, 

 back, and wing coverts deep chocolate brown or lead-colour ; back, 

 and wing coverts with rufous ends, bordered above with black ; quills 

 ending black, the very tips white ; tail eight or nine inches long; 

 deep lead-colour, or chocolate-brown ; the feathers marked on the 

 sides, and at the ends with white, with a broad bar of black, near 

 the end ; all the under parts from the chin, dusky white, crossed on 

 the breast and belly with pale dusky ash markings ; legs stout, short, 

 blue, claws black. The quills reach to the middle of the tail, which 

 is a little rounded at the end. Described from a drawing, in which 

 was the appearance of only three toes, two before and one behind. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — Mr. Lambert. 



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