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CUCULIDvE. 



Crested Coccyzus above bronzed-green with a golden gloss ; with 

 the forehead, cheeks, neck anteriorly, and breast clothed with 

 brown feathers, whose tips are marked with a reddish-white 

 crescent ; the upper belly yellowish ; the lower red ; tail 

 wedged. 



Inhabits South America. A most beautiful bird : 

 length nineteen or twenty inches : the head is adorned 

 with a crest composed of broad feathers, of which the 

 largest are rounded at the tip, and are of a fine 

 bluish colour, glossed with steel : the forehead, the 

 cheeks, the fore part of the neck and the breast are 

 clothed with short, velvety, scale-like feathers, which 

 are brown in the middle and tipped with crescents 

 of reddish-white : the breast has a band of bronzed- 

 black, which is wanting, or but slightly indicated in 

 the young : the belly is yellowish ; the lower belly 

 red, more or less brilliant according to the age of 

 the bird : the back and the wings are of a fine 

 bronzed-green, glossed with gold : the tail is com- 

 posed of twelve broad feathers, it is very long and 

 much wedged in form, and is of a fine purple-bronze 

 colour, except the two lateral-feathers, on each side, 

 which are of a bronzed-green : the space round the 

 eyes is naked : the beak is strong, thick and yellow ; 

 the base is shaded a little with greenish : the legs 

 are ashy-green ; and the claws yellow. The young 

 have the crest much shorter, and the steel gloss on 

 the feathers is distributed in spots. 



Sp. 8. Co ? phasianellus. 



Co ? gracilis oUmceo-Juscus supra', corpora subtus, gula, cau- 

 dasque apice albis; crista occipitali rufescente; jugulo pectoreque 

 albo nigroque macidatis ; rostra tenui. 



