6.
INDIAN
SPOTTED
C.
CucuFus ScoFopaceus, Lin. Syjl. 1. p. 170. N° 11.
Le Coucou tacheté de Bengale, Brif. orn, iv. p. 132. N° i j .
Le Boutfallick, Buf, oif, vi. p. 372.
Brown and ipotted Indian Cuckow,- Edvj. pi. 5.9.
D escription* JN bulk this is no bigger than a Thrufh, but meafures fourteen
inches in length. The bill is of a dirty yellow green, and
above an inch long : the plumage on the upper parts of the
body is rufous, the feathers edged with brown ; cm the under
parts white, edged with brown : the lower part of the belly, and
under tail coverts, have a mixture of rufous : the wing coverts are
white, edged with brown ; quills and fcapulars tranfverfely ftriated
with brown and rufous t tail cuneiform; feven inches and a half
Place.
in length ; the colour of it inclined to rufous, croffed with oblique
broad bands of brown ; legs dirty greenifh yellow.
Inhabits Bengal, where it goes by the name of Boutfallick-
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CHINESE
SPOTTED
C.
D escription.
Le Coucou tacheté dé la Chine, Buf. oif. vi. p. 37S.— PI. enl. 764.
TT ENGTH fourteen inches. Bill almoft an inch and a half
long, blackifh above, and yellow beneath : the upper part
of the head and neck are blackifh, fpotted with white about the
eyes : all the upper parts of the body of a deep greenifh grey,
marked with white, and gloffed with gilded brown : throat and
breaft regularly variegated with brown and white : the reft of the
under parts barred with the fame : the tail is fix inches and a
half long, even at the end, and barred with the fame colours : the
legs are yellowifh.
Place. Inhabits China,
Çuculus punftatus, Lin,Syfi, i. p. 170. N° 8.
Le Coucou tacheté des Indes, Brif, orn. iv. p. 134. NV14. pî. 10. f. 2«
• .... ....... Brun piqueté de roux, Buf,oif, vi. p. 377.
■ tacheté des Indes Orientales, PI, enl. 771.
J ^ARGER than aur Cuckow : length fixteen inches and a half.
Bill horn-colour ; from the bafe o f it to the ears» palling
under the eyes, is a rufous band : the plumage on the upper
part o f the body is brown, fpotted with rufous ; beneath rufous,
tranfverfely marked with blackilh brown ftriæ; thofe on the
belly lead numerous : the tail is cuneated, eight inches and a
quarter long, tranfverfely barred with rufous, arched band.s on
each fide the lhafts ; all the feathers have rufous ends r the legs
are grey brown : the claws blackilh.
The female differs in having the rufous fpots on the upper
parts lefs numerous, and the under parts much paler, than in the
male. .
This fpecies is found in the Eajl Indiesx and in the Philippine
IJlands.
Le Coucou tachete de I’llle de Pansy, Suit. Voy. p. 120. pi. 78.
»T*HIS is two-thirds bigger than our Cuckow. The bill is
black: irides yellow: the .upper parts of the body a very
deep brown, fpotted with rufous yellow;, thele fpots are oblong
on the head, and round, on the neck, back, and wing coverts ;
but on the quills they are tranfverfe, and yellowifh, intermixed
with black dots : the .throat is black, fpotted, as the back ;
breaft
8.
RUFOUS
SPOTTED
C.
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PAN A Y AN-
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