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INDIAN SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus scolopaceus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore undique griseo Juscoque nebuloso. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, and with the whole body 



clouded with grey and brown. 

 Cuculus scolopaceus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. lJQ.—Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 412.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 6. 

 Cuculus bengalensis naevius. Bris. 4. 132. 13. 

 Le Boutsallik. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3?2, 

 Coucou tachete' de Bengale. Biff. PI. Enl. 586* 

 Indian spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 576. 6. 



The beak of this species is of a dirty yellowish 

 green, and above an inch in length ; the plumage 

 on the upper parts of the body rufous, the feathers 

 edged with brown ; and on the under parts white, 

 edged with brown : the lower part of the belly, 

 and under tail-coverts, with a mixture of rufous : 

 wing-coverts white edged with brown : quills and 

 scapulars striated transversely with rufous and 

 brown : tail wedge-shaped ; seven inches and a 

 half in length, and rufous, crossed with broad ob- 

 lique bands of brown : legs dirty greenish yellow. 



Is about the size of a Thrush, and inhabits 

 Bengal, where it is called Boutsallick* 



