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SENEGAL COUCAU 

 (Polophilus senegalensis.) 



P. cauda cuneiformi, corpore griseo subtus albo^pileorectricibusque 

 nigricantibus. 



Coucal with a wedge-shaped tail; body beneath of a greyish 

 white; upper part of the head, neck, and tail-feathers 

 blackish. 



Cuculus senegalensis. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 169. 0. — Gmel. SysU 



Nat. 1. 412. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 213. 19. 

 Coucou de Senegal. Buff. PL Enl. 332. 

 Rufalbin. Buff. 6. 3?0. 



Strait-heeled Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 525. 18. 



This bird is about fifteen inches in length : beak 

 black, fifteen lines long : upper part of the head 

 and neck covered with black feathers that are 

 darkest in the middle : prevailing colour above of 

 a rufous brown, beneath dirty white : cheeks, 

 throat, fore part and sides of the neck, dirty white, 

 with the shafts brightest : un der parts of the breast 

 dirty white, with obscure transverse striae : rump 

 and upper tail-coverts brown, with deep brown 

 transverse striae : under tail- coverts dirty white, 

 the striae rather obscure : quills rufous, with 

 brownish tips : tail eight inches long, wedge- 

 shaped, and black : legs and claws greyish brown, 



This species inhabits Senegal, and is rather 

 larger than Cuculus canoras. 



