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GREAT MADAGASCAR CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Madagascarensis.) 



C. olivaceus fusco undulatus ; gula lutescente ; pectore abdomi- 

 neque antice Julvis ; cauda cuneiformi ; rectricibus lateralibus 

 apice albis. 



Olive-coloured Cuckow, undulated with brown ; throat yellow- 

 ish; breast and abdomen in front fulvous; tail wedge-shaped, 

 the lateral feathers with white tips. 



Cuculus Madagascarensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 41(5. — Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 1. 212. 15. 



Coucou verdatre de Madagascar. Buff. Hist. Nat, Ois. 6. 364. 

 — Buff. PI. Enl. 815. 



Great Madagascar Cuckow. Lath. Syn, 2. 521. 14. 



Length twenty-one inches and a half : beak an 

 inch and three quarters long, and black : irides 

 orange : a dusky streak beneath the eyes arising 

 at the beak : upper parts of the body dark olive, 

 obscurely waved with dark brown : throat light 

 olive, tinged with yellow : breast and upper parts 

 of the belly fulvous ; lower parts of the belly and 

 under tail-coverts brown : thighs greyish ash-co- 

 lour : tail ten inches in length, some of the lateral 

 feathers tipped with white : the wings reach two 

 inches farther than the base of the tail : legs yel- 

 lowish-brown. Is found in the Island of Mada- 

 gascar. 



