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PHEASANT COXJCAp. 

 (Polophilus Phasianus.) 



P. rtifo, Jiavo nigroque wriegatus : capite, collo, gula, jugulo, 



pectore, dorso abdomineque nigris ; cauda nigra supra fasais 



transversis albidis, interruptis, punctatis. 

 Coucal, variegated with yellow, black, and rufous: head, neck, 



throat, breast, back, and belly, black; tail black above, with 



transverse interrupted punctated bands. 

 Cuculus Phasianus. Lath. Gen. Sup. II. 30. 4. 

 Pheasant Cuckow. Lath. Sup. II. 13?. 9. 

 Polophilus Phasianus. Leach. Zool. Misc, 1. 116. 46. 



This beautiful species is an inhabitant of New 

 Holland, and is about seventeen inches in length : 

 the beak, head, neck, and all the under part of a 

 blackish colour : the whole of the back and wings 

 varied with rufous, yellow, brown, and black : 

 the tail is long, and barred with the same colour : 

 legs dusky black : the toes, like the rest of the 

 genus, having the hind claws long. 



It is called in New Holland the Pheasant 

 Cuckow. 



