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PUNCTATED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus punctulatus.) 



C . cauda cuneiformi ; corpore fusco-nitente maculis rufescentibus ; 



abdomine crissoque albidis. 

 Ciickow, with a wedge-shaped tail; body of a shining fuscous, 



with rufescent spots ; abdomen and vent-feathers whitish. 

 Cuculus punctulatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 414. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 220. 43. 

 Punctated Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 541. 



Nine inches long : beak about one inch in 

 length, incurved, and black : head, neck, and 

 upper parts of the body, brown ; each feather 

 marked with a pale rufous spot at the tip : wings 

 and tail brown, but darker than the rest, and the 

 feathers spotted in the same manner : tail cunei- 

 form, with the upper coverts extending over a 

 great part of it : belly and vent dirty white : legs 

 brown. Inhabits Cayenne. 



