PANAYAN CUCKOW. 



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This species has the name of Devil, from being 

 held by the natives as a bird of ill omen ; they 

 will not touch its flesh, which is easily accounted 

 for, as it is very bad and lean : its flight is some- 

 thing similar to that of a Kingsfisher ; it feeds on 

 insects, and often wags its tail on changing its 

 situation ; it is likewise extremely tame, almost 

 suffering itself to be touched before it offers to 

 escape. 



PANAYAN CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus radiatus.) 



C. fusco-nigricans, genis gulaque vinaceis, pectore abdomineque 



Jlavescentibus nigro fasciatis, rectricibus nigris albo Jasciatis. 

 Blackish-brown Cuckow, with the cheeks and throat vinaceous, 



breast and abdomen yellowish with black fasciae, tail-feathers 



black with white fasciae. 

 Cuculus radiatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 420. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 



1. 214. 22. 



Coucou brun et jaune & ventre raye. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 

 379- 



Coucou k ventre raye de Panay. Son. Voy. 120. 79- 

 Panayan Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 527- 21. 



Of this bird the beak is black : irides orange : 

 throat and sides of the head vinaceous 5 upper 

 part of the head blackish grey: back and wings 

 dull brown black : under part of the quills spotted 

 with white, nearest the body : tail black, barred 

 and tipped with white, and even at the end : breast 

 and belly bath barred with black ; the former with 



