YELLOW-BELLIED GREEN CUCKOW. 
the feet, are of a light ash-colour, with trans^ 
verse lines of black. The legs and feet are 
smaller, and weaker, in proportion, than I 
have observed them , to be in any other bird. 
The toes stand two forward, and two back- 
ward : and the outer toes, on each foot, are 
the shortest ; contrary to what they are in 
Woodpeckers, Parrots, Cuckows, &c. The 
two forward toes are conne6i:ed together at 
their bottoms, the hinder toes are wholly se- 
parated. The feet and claws are of a brown- 
ish colour. This bird, which was drawn 
from life, is one of those in the colieclion of 
the Right Honourable Earl of Ferrers. It is 
theCurucui of Marcgrave ; whose description 
agrees nearly with mine, except that he makes 
the under side of a vermilion colour. See 
Wiilughby's Ornithology, and a trifling 
small figure. Mr. Brisson seems not to have 
seen this bird, but gives Marcgrave's descrip- 
tion of it in his Ornithology. He calls it the 
Couroucou Verddu Bresil." 
Edwards, though he names this bird a Cuc- 
kow, seems sensible of some essential diffe- 
rence in his description of the toes. The 
Curucuis, 
