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TOLOU COUCAL. 

 (Polophilus Tolu.) 



P. cauda cimeiformi, corpore virescente-atro, alis castaneis, capite 

 .collo dorsoque antice nigricantibus rufo striatis. 



Coucal with a dark green body; chesnut wings ; head, neck, and 

 anterior part of the back blackish with rufous striae; tail 

 wedge-shaped. 



Cuculus Tolu. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 422. — Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 

 213. 18. 



Cuculus madagascariensis. Bris, 4. 138. 1(3. 13. 2. 



Coucou de Madagascar. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 36$. 1/.— 



Buff. PI. Enl. 295. i. 

 Long-heeled Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 524. 17. 

 Le Coucal noiron. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. 5. 220. 



Larger than a Blackbird: length fourteen 

 inches and a quarter : beak brown, an inch and a 

 quarter in length : head, throat, hind part of the 

 neck, and upper part of the back, covered with 

 long, narrow stiff feathers, of a blackish colour, 

 with a reddish white stripe down the shaft ; those 

 on the throat, fore part of the neck, and breast, 

 the same, but have only a longitudinal stripe on 

 each side : lower part of the breast dirty white ; 

 lower part of the back, belly, sides, rump, thighs, 

 and tail- coverts greenish black : scapulars and 

 wing- coverts chesnut, shafts of each purplish ; 

 quill-feathers chesnut, with brown tips ; tail above 

 eight inches long; blackish green above, and 

 black beneath, wedge-shaped; legs and claws 

 black: the claw of the inner toe above three 

 quarters of an inch long. Found at Madagascar, 

 where it is called Tolou. 



