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FAN-TAILED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus flabelliformis.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, corpore nigro subtus Julvo ; rectricibus 

 lateralibus intus nigro alboque Jasciatis. 



Cuckow with a black body above ; fulvous beneath ; tail wedge- 

 shaped, the feathers barred with black and white on the inner 

 webs. 



Cuculus flabelliformis. Lath. Gen. Sup. II. 30. 6. 

 Fan-tailed Cuckow. Lath. Sup. II. 138. 11. 126. 



About the size of a Thrush : ten inches in 

 length : beak black: upper parts of the body dusky 

 black, which colour extends round the neck, and 

 forms a sort of collar : cheeks and throat ferru- 

 ginous buff ; sides of the breast the same ; middle 

 and belly paler : wings when closed reach beyond 

 the middle of the tail, which is very much wedge- 

 shaped, and about one-third the length of the 

 body; two middle feathers black, as are all the 

 others on the outer webs, but on the inner they 

 are barred alternately with white and black : legs 

 yellow : is found in New Holland. 



