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WHITE- RUMPED BLACK CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus tenebrosus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore nigro, dorso infimo uropygio abdo- 

 mine crisso femoribusque albis,Ja$cia pectoralijuha. 



Cuckow with a black body ; the lower part of the back, the 

 rump, abdomen, vent feathers and thighs white ; with a ful- 

 vous spot on the breast, and a wedge-shaped tail. 



Cuculus tenebrosus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1, 41/. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 1. 221. 46. 



Le petit Coucou noir de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 



417.— Buff. PI. Enl. 505. 

 White-rumped black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 544. 43. 



This bird, which very much resembles the Bar- 

 bets in its manners, is found at the same place and 

 in similar situations as Bucco calcaratus : it sits the 

 whole day perched on a solitary branch of a tree, 

 in an open spot, and entirely without any motion, 

 except what is merely necessary for procuring the 

 insects on which it feeds ; it builds in the hole of a 

 tree, and sometimes even in a hole in the ground 

 if it find one already made. It is thus described : 

 length above eight inches ; beak above an inch, and 

 dusky : it is entirely black, except the lower part 

 of the back and the rump, the belly, thighs, and 

 vent, all of which are white: on the belly the 

 white is separated from the black by an orange 

 band : tail barely three inches long, wedge-shaped, 

 and exceeds the wings in length but very little : 

 legs yellow. 



