114 



EDOLIO CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus serratus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite cristato, cor pore nigro-nitido (fcemina 



subtus alba), macula alarum serratiformi alba, 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, crested head, shining black 



body, (female white beneath), and a white spot on the wings 



notched like a saw. 

 Cuculus serratus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 412. mas. — Lath, Ind. 



Orn. I. 211. 12. mas. 

 Cuculus ater. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 415. 



Cuculus melanoleucos. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 4 1 6. fcem. — Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 1. 211. 13. fcem. 

 Le Coucou Edolio. Le Vaill, Ois. d'Afr. 5. 3g. 20*7. mas. — 



208. fcem. 



Jacobin huppe de Coromandle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6, 380. 



fcem.— Buff. PI. Enl. 8/2. fcem. 

 Crested Black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 519. W. mas.— Lath, 



Sup. 100. mas. 



Coromandel crested Cuckow.— Lath. Syn. 2. 520. 12. fcem. 



The Edolio Cuckow is in length twelve inches 

 and a half: beak an inch and a quarter, much 

 curved, and black ; the feathers of the head an . 

 inch long, forming a crest : general colour of the 

 plumage glossy black, except the base of the first 

 four or five quills, which are white, forming a spot 

 on the exterior edge of the wing of the same co- 

 lour : tail wedge-shaped, the two middle feathers 

 seven inches in length, outer ones only four inches 

 and a half : the feathers on the thigh long, hang- 

 ing a great way over the legs, which are black. 

 The female differs in being rather less, and having 



