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Inhabits Carolina and Georgia. Allied to C. 

 Americanus ; but one inch shorter in length : beak 

 wholly black and smaller than in that bird : a bare, 

 wrinkled, deep-red skin surrounds the eye : in colour 

 this is greatly similar to the foregoing bird, but it 

 wants the light cinnamon-colour on the wings : the 

 tail is of an uniform, dark, silky drab-colour, but 

 at the tip of each feather is a white spot, bordered 

 above with a slight dash of dull-black. The female 

 resembles the male. 



Sp. 11. Cu. glandarius. Steph. v. ix. p. 116. pi. 25. — The south 



of Europe and north of Africa. 

 Sp. 12. Cu. flavus. Steph. v. ix, p. 107. — The Isle of Panay. 



. B. Rostro basi elevato. 

 B. With the beak elevated at the base. 



Sp. 13. Cu. auratus. Steph. v. ix. p. 127. — Africa. 

 Sp. 14. Cu. Classi. Cuvier. — Cuculus Klaas. Steph.v.ix.p.\2B. 

 — Africa. 



Sp. 15. Cu. lucidus. Steph. v. ix. p. 126. pL 26. Temm. PI. 



Col. 102./. J.— Inhabits New Zealand. 

 Sp. 16. Cu. cupreus. Steph. v. ix. p. 129. — Africa. 

 Sp. 17. Cu. chalcites. Illiger.—Temm. PI. Col. 102./. 2. 

 Cu. supra metallico-viridis, capite rufo nitore ceneo, caudd basi 



riifd, medio viridescenie, apice alba, infrh alhus collo antice 



pectoreque fusco variis. 

 Cuckoo above metallic-green, with the head red, glossed with 



bronze ; the tail red at the base, greenish in the middle, white 



at the tip, under part white, with the neck anteriorly and the 



breast varied with brown. 



Inhabits Australasia and its vicinity. Length 

 rather more than five inches and a half: the male 

 has the top of the head red, with a bronzed gloss : 



V. XIV. p. !. 14 



