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The brown and fpotted Indian Cuckow. 
T his Bird k of the Size of a but longer bodied, and hath, 
in Proportion to its Bignefs, a large Head, and a very long Tail ; 
the Bill is pretty ftrong and thick for this Tribe of Birds, of a dirty Yeh 
low, inclining to Green ; the Head, Neck, whole Body, Wings, and Tail, 
are of a Brown^Colour, fpotted and barred in every Part with either a 
lighter Brown or White ; the Head, Wings and back Part are darker than 
the under Side, fpotted and intermixed with a lighter Brown ; though in 
the lefler Coverts of the Wings there are fome white Spots : The Spots on 
the Qiiills fall in fuch Manner as to caufe Bars of light Brown a-crols 
them ; the Tail is barred a-crofs with the fame Colour, the Lines tend- 
ing from the Shafts of the Feathers toward their Tips, as is plainly ex- 
prels’d in the Figure ; the Breaft, Belly, Thighs, and covert Feathers 
under the Tail, have a great Proportion of White, a little mixed in the 
Belly, Thighs, and under the Tail with Orange-colour ; all the under 
Side being befet fomething confufedly, with femi-lunar black Spots ; the 
Legs are fhort ; both Legs and Feet of a yellowifh Colour; the Toes ftand 
two forward, and as many behind ; the Claws are dusky. This Bird be- 
ing more like the common Cuckow than the others here defcribed, it may 
be thought the fame by flight Obfervers of Nature, fo it will be proper 
to oblerve in what they chiefly dilagree : Firft, it is left by a full third 
Part, though, by reafon of the fuperior Length of the Tail, this Bird is an 
Inch or more longer than the common Cuckow \ that is white, with regu- 
lar continued tranfverfe Lines, on the under Side, from the Breaft down- 
ward ; this hath the Belly and under Side white, mixed with Orange, and 
fprinkled with black Spots; that hath bright Gold-colour’d Legs ; this 
hath them of a dirty Yellow, rather inclining to Green : But I am more 
certainly corivinced, who have feen and compared the Birds together, than 
another can be by my perfuading him to be of my Opinion : The Tail 
Feathers of the Common are tipp’d with White; but iii this there is no 
Appearance of it. 
This Bird was brought from Bengal^ in which Country Language it is 
called, BoughtfallicL Mr. Dandridge obliged me with a Sight ot this 
Bird ; from which my Defign was taken. 
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