HONEY-GUIDE CUCKOW. 
A.S we are enabled to give a new and beau- 
ifisl figure of this very curious bird, we have 
:aken a liberty which we do not often allow 
ourselves with respect to it's name. The ex- 
pressive appellation of Cuculus Indicator, by 
-vhich Dr. Gmelin has designated this bird in 
lis edition of the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus, 
s not easy to be advantageously translated; 
nd is has, in our opinion, been very unsuc- 
;essfully attempted by the translator of Buf- 
"on's Ornithology, who calls it the Pointer 
IDuckow. Spar man, the original scientific 
liscoverer of this bird, denominates it the 
rloney-Guide ; or, Cuculus Indicator: this 
louble appellation, so expressive of it's appear- 
mce and peculiar faculty, we have endeavoured 
:o combine, by calling it the Honey-Guide 
Duckow, The ingenious Mr. Latham, how r 
iver, in his estimable works, names it simply 
he Honey Cuckow. 
The account given by Dr. Sparman of this 
>ird, in a Letter to Dr. John Reinhold Forster, 
F, R. $. which was communicated to the 
Royal 
