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MINDANAO CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus Mindanensis.) 



C. cauda rotundata ; corpore viridi-aureo Juseo-albo maculato; 



subtus alio nigricante undulato. 

 Cuckow, with a rounded tail ; body of a green-gold spotted with 



dirty white, beneath white with black undulations. 

 Cuculus mindanensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 169. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 412. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 209. 5. 

 Cuculus mindanensis naevius. Bris. 4. 130. t. 12. f. 1. — Ger. 



Orn. \ . 82. 76. 



Le Coucou varie de Mindanao. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 575. 



Buff. PI Enl. 277. 

 Mindanao Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 515. 5. 



This species at first sight has something the ap- 

 pearance of a young European Cuckow, although 

 it is much larger than a full-grown one, and is very 

 different from it, particularly in the quills and 

 tail : it is in length fourteen inches and a half ; 

 the beak is of a grey-brown : the plumage is of a 

 gilded-brown, marked with white spots, and also 

 with pale and rufous ones : under parts white, 

 transversely streaked with blackish : fore-part of 

 the neck and throat brown, spotted with white : 

 quills brown, spotted on the outer webs with ru- 

 fous, and the inner with white : tail of a gilded- 

 brown, crossed with transverse rufous bands on 

 each side the shaft, some of the feathers tipped 

 with white : legs and claws grey. 



It is found at Mindanao, and other of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, and likewise about the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the Coast of Coromandel. 



