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SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus naevius.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi ; corporeJusco^ferrugineo;jugulo striis Jus- 

 cis; rectricibus apice rufescentibus. 



Cuckow, with a wedge-shaped tail ; body of a brownish-ferru- 

 ginous ; jugulum with fuscous striae ; tail-feathers reddish at 

 the tips. 



Cuculus naevius. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170. 9. — Gmel. Syst. Nat, 



If* 413.— Lath. hid. Om. t. 220. 42. 

 Guculus cyanensis naevius. Bris. 4. 127. \Ut* Q.f. i. 

 Coucou brun varie de roux. Buff'. Hist. Nat, Ois. 6. 411. 

 Coucou tachete de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 812. 

 Spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 53Q. 



Length ten inches and three quarters: beak 

 three quarters of an inch long; upper mandible 

 black on the top and rufous on the sides; the under 

 wholly rufous: under parts of the body rufous 

 white : the feathers on the crown of a deep brown, 

 and longish, with rufous tips, and a few of them 

 margined with rufous : hind part of the neck ru- 

 fous grey, with deep brown down the shafts: back 

 and rump the same ; each feather tipped with a 

 rufous spot : there is a transverse brownish line 

 near the end of each feather of the throat and 

 neck : under tail-feathers rufous : quills grey- 

 brown with a rufous spot near the tips, and rufous 

 edges : tail very much wedge-shaped, and six 

 inches long, similar in colour to the quills ; some 

 of the upper coverts reaching to near two-thirds 



