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RUFOUS-SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus punctatus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi ; corpore nigricante riifo punctato ; subtus riifr 



strigis nigris; rectricibus riifo Jasciatis. 

 Cuckow, with a wedge-shaped tail, a blackish body spotted with 



rufous, beneath rufous with black striee ; tail-feathers banded 



with rufous. 



Cuculus punctatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 170. 8. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 413.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 210. 8. 

 Cuculus indicus naevius. Briss. 4. 134. 14. t. 10. f. 2. 

 Coucou brun picquete de roux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 37/. 

 Coucou tachete des Indes or. Buff. PL Enl. 77 1. 

 Rufous-spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 517. 8. 



This bird is sixteen inches and a half in length: 

 beak horn-coloured ; from the base of it to the ear, 

 passing under the eyes, is a rufous band : upper 

 part of the body brown spotted with rufous ; be- 

 neath rufous, marked transversely with blackish- 

 brown striaa ; those on the belly least numerous : 

 tail wedge-shaped, eight inches and a quarter long, 

 transversely striped with arched rufous bands on 

 each side the shafts ; all the ends of the feathers 

 rufous : legs grey-brown : claws blackish. 



The female differs from the male in having the 

 rufous spots on the upper part less numerous, and 

 the under parts much paler. 



Inhabits the East Indies and the Philippine 

 Islands. 



