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CAPE CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus capensis.) 



C. viridi-fuscus, collo s?ibtus tectricibusque alarum rufis, corpore 



subtus albo nigro transversim lineato, cauda rufa apice alba. 

 Green-brown Cuckow, with the neek and wing-coverts rufous, 5 



body beneath white, transversely striated with black; tail 



rufous, with a whke tip. 

 Cuculus capensis. Gmel.Syst. Nat. I. 410. — Lat. Ind. Orn. 1. 



208. 2. 



Coucou du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6, 



353.— Buff. PI. Enl. 3iJ0. 

 Cape Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 513. 2. 



Rather smaller than the common Cuckow: 

 beak deep brown : irides yellow : the upper part 

 of the body greenish brown : throat, cheeks, fore 

 part of the neck, and upper wing-coverts of a dark 

 rufous colour: tail-feathers palish rufous, tipped 

 with white : breast and all the under parts of the 

 body white, crossed with black lines : legs reddish 

 brown. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. May not this 

 be a variety of the preceding ? 



