AFRICAN BLACK CUCKOO. 
Idi 
The whole upper and under plumage of this bird 
is of a deep black, glossed with blue ; the greater 
quills are dark brown and very pale at their base, 
while their inner webs are banded with white : there 
appears to be a few whitish bands on the thigh- 
feathers, and the lateral tail-feathers, as well as their 
under covers, are tipt with whitish ; there are also 
some white spots at the edge of the shoulders. 
Total length, 12J inches ; bill, from the gape, 
; wings, 6f ; tail, beyond, ; ditto, from the 
base, 65. 
RUFOUS-BREASTED CUCKOO. 
Ouculus rubiculus, Swains. 
IVings six inches and a half long ; breast and sides of the neck 
rufous ; body beneath fulvous white, with broad black bars ; 
tail black, with three whito spots down the shaft ; the tips 
white. 
This Cuckoo is at once known from the last by the 
colour of its tail and the greater breadth of the 
black bars on the body. A young specimen, in a 
state of moulting, which is in possession of Mr. War- 
wick, has obviously been prepared by the Senegal 
bird-stuffers ; but what we consider as the adult 
bird is a specimen sent, as we were informed, from 
