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ORIENTAL CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Orientalis.) 



C. cauda rotundata, corpore nigro-virente nitente ; rostro Jusco. 

 Cuckow, with a rounded tail, black body, with a green gloss ; 

 beak fuscous. 



Cuculus Orientalis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. l6s. 2. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. t. 410.— Lath. Ind. Om. 1.210. 10, 

 Cuculus Indicus niger. Bris. 4. 142. 10. f. 

 Le Coukeel. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 383. 1. 

 Coucou noir des Indes. Buff. PL Enl. 274. 1 . 

 Eastern black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 518. 10. 

 /S. cceruleo-nigricante nit ens, remige extime breviore. 

 Of a shining blue-black, the outward quill very short. 

 Cuculus Orientalis /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 210. 10. 

 Le Coukeel. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 383. 2. 

 Eastern Black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2, 518. 10. A. 

 y. corporo nigro nitido, rostro Jlavo. 

 Body of a shining black, and with a yellow beak. 



Of this species there are several varieties, the 

 first of which is the size of a Pigeon : length about 

 sixteen inches : beak grey-brown : plumage nearly- 

 black, with a green gloss, which, in some parts, 

 verges to a violet, particularly beneath the tail, 

 which is eight inches long : legs grey- brown : 

 claws black : found in the East Indies. 



The next variety inhabits Mindanao, and is in 

 length fourteen inches : beak black, yellow at the 

 tip : the plumage wholly blackish, glossed with 

 blue : the first quill-feather half as short again as 

 the third, which is longest of all : tail generally 

 carried spread. There is also another variety, 

 which is in length nine inches : beak bright orange, 

 plumage black, glossed with green and violet : 



