COLLARED CUCKOW. 



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spread : it is likewise found in Madagascar, Se- 

 negal, and CafFraria, where it is called Coua, no 

 doubt from its uttering the words coha-coha-coha 

 repeatedly, which it is said to do by Le Vaillant. 



COLLARED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus coromandus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite cristato, corpore nigro, subtus tor- 



queque collari albo. 

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



and a white collar round the neck. 

 Cuculus coromandus. Lin, Sy$t. Nat, 1. 1 J I, 20. — Gmel. Sy*t, 



Nat, 1. 421. Lath, Ind. Orti, 1. 216. 30. 

 Coucou huppe a collier. Buff, Hist. Nat, Ois. 6. 38B. 

 Coucou huppe de Coromandel. Buff, PI, Enl, 274. 2. 

 Collared Cuckow. lath, Syn, 2. 529. 26, 

 ft. gula,jugulo remigibusque Juscis, 

 With the throat, jugulum, and wing-quills fuscous. 

 Le Coucou a collier blanc. Le Vail, Ois. d'Afr. 5. 213. 



Beak not quite an inch in length, rather bent, 

 and of an ash-colour : irides yellowish : head 

 crested, and blackish, as is the upper part of the 

 body : there is a small, round, grey spot on each 

 side of the head behind the eye : the upper part 

 of the neck is surrounded with a white collar, a 

 quarter of an inch broad; throat and thighs are 

 blackish : the fore part of the neck, breast, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts white : scapulars and wing- 

 coverts blackish in the middle, with rufous mar- 

 gins ; but the greater wing-coverts farthest from 



