CAROLINA CUCKOW. 



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same, barred with brown, the bars broadest on the 

 breast and belly : vent white, without any brown 

 stripes : quills marked with ferruginous spots : 

 under tail-coverts pale buff; upper ones like the 

 back, one third the length of the tail, which is 

 nine inches long, and very much wedge-shaped ; 

 all the feathers tipped with white, and marked 

 with ferruginous bars, which are very numerous : 

 wings, when closed, reaching to one third of the 

 length : legs greenish. 



This species is about the size of a Magpie, being 

 full nineteen inches long: it inhabits Otaheite, 

 and likewise some of the adjoining islands ; in 

 the former place it is called Areva-reva and Ara- 

 Wereroa. 



CAROLINA CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus American us.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore supra cinereo subtus albo, mandibula 

 inferiore lutea. 



Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, body above cinereous, beneath 



white, inferior mandible yellow. 

 Cuculus Americanus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170/10. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 414. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 21 9. 39. 

 Cuculus Carolinensis. Bris. 4. 112.3. 

 Le Vieillard h ailes rousses. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 400. 

 Coucou de la Caroline. Buff. PI. Enl. 8l6. 

 Carolina Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 527. 35. 



This is about the size of a Blackbird ; the upper 

 mandible of the beak black, with a yellowish base; 



