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HORNED CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus cornutus.) 



C. cauda cuneiformi, capite crista bifida, corpore faliginoso, cauda 

 apice alba, 



Cuckow with a wedge-shaped tail, which is white at the tip ; 



head with a bifid crest ; body soot}'. 

 Cuculus cornutus. Lyn. Syst. Nat. 1. 171. 127. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 422. Lath. Syst. Nat. 1. 2l6. 31. 

 Cuculus brasiliensis cornutus. Bris. 4. 145. 20. 

 Atinga guacu mucu. Buff. Hist. Nat. 6. 40Q. 

 Horned Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 530. 27. 



In length twelve inches : beak greenish yellow, 

 and a little bent at the end : irides crimson : head 

 and all the upper parts of a sooty colour ; with a 

 double crest on the head resembling horns, which 

 can be elevated at pleasure; lower parts cine- 

 reous : quills and tail soot-colour ; the last darkest, 

 tipped with white, and nine inches in length; 

 two middle feathers longest ; the outer ones very 

 short : legs and claws ash-colour, covered in front 

 with feathers very low down : is an inhabitant of 

 BrasiL 



