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BLUE-HEADED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus cyanocephalus.) 



C. maculatus supra Juscus subtus albus ; capite colloque supra ni- 



gro-cyaneis ; gula rufa. 

 Cuckow, above brown, beneath white spotted ; head and neck 



above of a black-blue ; throat rufous. 

 Cuculus cyanocephalus. hath. Gen. Sup. II. 30. 3. 

 Blue-headed Cuckow. Lath. Sup. II. 13?. 8. 



This bird, which is a native of New Holland, is 

 about nine inches in length : beak of a pale blue 

 colour, and rather bent : upper part of the head, 

 with the eyes, and sides and back of the neck, dark 

 blue inclining to black ; the rest of the upper parts 

 pale brown, with white dots on the back, and nar- 

 row bars of the same across the wings and tail : 

 under parts entirely white, with narrow dusky 

 lines running in a transverse direction : throat and 

 fore-part of the neck orange: tail long, and nearly 

 even at the end : legs blueish. 



