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the back and the wings are plain metallic-green : the 

 tail above is red at its base, a little shaded with green 

 in the middle, and white at its tip ; its two lateral 

 feathers having large oval white spots on their inner 

 webs : the fore part of the neck and the breast are 

 whitish, varied with brown : the belly is white : the 

 under tail-coverts whitish, spotted with bronzed- 

 green : the tarsi are long and naked. The female is 

 reddish above, very slightly shaded with bronze, and 

 white beneath. 



Sp. 18. Cu. aeratus. 



Cu. viridi-ceratus cyaneo griseoque splendidus, alts caudaque prce- 

 cipue cyaneis; infra albido-virescens. 



Bronzed-green Cuckoo glossed with blue and grey, the blue pre- 

 dominating on the wings and tail; the body beneath whitish- 

 green. 



Le Coucou gris bronze. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. v. v. p. 60. 215. 

 — Bronzed Cuckoo. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iii. p. 294. 



Inhabits Africa. Length of C. canorus : beak 

 broad at the base ; the upper mandible curves down- 

 wards at the point, and the inner shuts in beneath it, 

 its colour yellow : the prevailing colour of the plu- 

 mage is deep green-bronze, very bright, and changing 

 into blue and grey, according to the light ; but on 

 the wings and tail the blue predominates : on the 

 under parts, from the chin, it is grey, lightly tinged 

 with green : the tail is half the length of the bird, 

 cuneiform, the two middle feathers four inches and a 

 half long, the outer about three inches : legs black. 



Sp, 19. Cu. xanthorhynchus. Linn. Trans, (Horsf.) v. xiii. 

 p. 179. 



