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GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOW. 



curate examination it evidently appears to be a 

 distinct species : it is an inhabitant of the southern 

 part of Africa. - 



GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus glandarius.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite subcristato, alts albo et ciner ascent e 



maculatis, fascia oculari nigra. 

 Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, slightly crested head, wings 



spotted with white and cinereous, and a black stripe near the 



eye. 



Cuculus glandarius. Lin. Syst. Nat. i. 169. 5. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 411.— Lath. hid. Orn. 1, 208. 3. 

 Cuculus Andalusise. Bris. 4. 126. 10. — Ger. Orn, 1. 81. 70* 

 Le grand Coucou tachete. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 361. 

 Great spotted Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 513. 3. 



Beak black, an inch and a quarter in length, 

 and a little bent : head crested ; crest composed 

 of blueish ash-coloured feathers : from the base of 

 the upper mandible arises a band of black, which 

 passes through the eyes almost to the hinder part 

 of the head, and is broadest in the middle : sca- 

 pulars, upper wing, and tail-coverts dark brown, 

 marked with small white and pale cinereous spots : 

 quills brown ; each of the secondaries marked with 

 a pale cinereous spot : tail wedge-shaped, blackish, 

 all tipped with white except the two middle fea- 

 thers : legs and claws black. 



This species inhabits the south of Europe, and 

 the north of Africa; size of a Magpie, about 

 fourteen inches in length. 



