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STi DOMINGO CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Dominicus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi ; corpore griseo-Jusco subtus albido; rectricibus 



later alibus tribus apice albis. 

 Cuckow, with a wedge-shaped tail, with the three lateral feathers 



tipped with white ; body greyish fuscous, beneath whitish. 

 Cuculus Dominicus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1, 170. 13. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.416, — Lath. I.nd. Orn. 1.221.44. — Bris. 4. 110. 2. 



t. Q.f. 2. 



Le Cendrillard. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 413. 

 St. Domingo Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 541. 40* 



This bird, which is about the size of a Thrush, 

 is ten inches and a half in length: beak grey brown, 

 and an inch and a quarter long : plumage grey 

 brown above, and generally, but not always, (be- 

 ing sometimes entirely white,) ash-colour beneath 5 

 quills rufous, tipped and margined with grey 

 brown : tail five inches and a quarter long, and 

 wedge-shaped ; the two middle feathers grey 

 brown; the others black with white tips; the most 

 outward one being white on the exterior margin : 

 legs and claws grey brown. Found at Guiana, 

 St. Domingo, and Louisiana. 



v. ix, p. 1. 



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