182 RUFOUS-BREASTED CUCKOO. 
India : both, however, agree in the length of the 
wings and the peculiar colour and markings of the 
tail, so that we have but little doubt that they are of 
one species ; although, in the young bird, the rufous 
colour of the breast, and the bands on the body, are 
not so dark as in the supposed adult from India. 
The vent and under tail-covers are light buff-colour. 
LE V A ILL ANT’S CUCKOO. 
Oaylophus Vaillanti , Swains. 
Head crested with pointed feathers ; plumage above black, 
glossed with green ; band at the base of the quills, end of 
the tail, and under parts of the body, white \ throat striped 
with black. 
Variete du Coucou Edolio, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af iv. pi. 209.— 
Coccyzus Vaillantii, Zool. III. 2d series, pi. 13. 
Having already figured and endeavoured to clear 
up the systematic history of this elegant species, 
which, seems common both to "Western Africa and 
Abyssinia *, our present notice may be short, parti- 
cularly as we have recently adverted more parti- 
cularly to those characters which separate it from 
the old genus Coccyzus. 
Saifs Travels, App. iv. page 46. 
