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Place.
bread and belly pale rufous, tranfverfely driped with black: the
tail is long, even at the end, of a rufous yellow, croffed with tranf-
verfe bars of black : the legs are lead-colour.
Inhabits the JJle of Panay. It mud be obferved, that it differs
from the lad in two particulars, viz. in wanting the rufous mark
under the eyes, and the tail not being cuneated as in the lad
bird; otherwife, it feems not unlike it, both in figure and de-
fcription.
10.
EASTERN
BLACK
C .
Cticukis Orientalis, Lm. oyft. i. p. i 61>. N° 2.
Le Soucou noir des Indes. Brif. ortt. iv. p. 142. N® 18. pl. 10. f. I .—/V.
enl. 274. f. 1.
Le Coukeel, Buf. o f. vi. p. 383. le premier.
D sscription. O IZE of a Pigeon: length fixteen inches. Bill grey brown:
general colour of the plumage black, glofled with green, and
in fome parts with violet, efpecially under the tail, which is eight
inches in length : legs grey brown : claws black.
Place. Inhabits the Eafl Indies.
io.
V ar . A.>
Le Coukeel, Buf. oif. vi. p. 383. UJeconi.
D escrip t ion. C IZ E of our Cuckow: length fourteen inches. The bill is
black, with a yellow tip : the whole plumage blackifh, gloffed
with blue: the fird quill feather is half as fhort again as the
third, which is the longed of all. It carries the tail fpread for
the mod part.
PL-Aiglo Inhabits Mindanao,
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C ü G K O W. 5l 9
SBÊ I#
^uculus nîger, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 170. N° i z‘.
Le Coucou noir de Bengale, Bref. or.n. iv; p. 141.
Le Coukeel, 0//'. vi. p. 3 84*. le troifieme.
Black Indian Cuckow, Ed<w. pl. ç8»
*
K» 17.
C lZ E o f a Blackbird : length nine inches. Bill bright orange,
Ihorter and thicker than in the common Cuckow : the whole
bird of a black colour, glofled with green and violet:. the tail is
wedged in. fhape, and four inches and a half in length : legs of a.
reddifh brown : claws blackifh.
Inhabits Bengal, where it is called Coukeel, no doubt from its
imitating that word..
V a.r. B.
D escription.
P e a c e . l ; -m
T ENGTH twelve inches and'a half. Bill are inch-and'a quarter
long, and pretty much curved'; the colour of it black: the
feathers of the head are an inch in length, forming a cred : general
colour of the plumage gloffy black, except the bafe of the four or
five firft quills, which are white, and form a fpot of that colour
on the outer edge of the wing : the tail is cuneiform; the* two
middle feathers feven inches, long;. the outer feathers only four
inches and a half a the thigh feathers are pretty long, and hang a
good way over the legs, which are black.
This inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and’ia in the collection of
Sir Jofeph Banks. I am alfio in poffeffion. of a very perfect: one ;
but it is rather lefs, and the tail not fo long in. proportion. They,
are fo alike, that 1 am clear they only differ in age or fex.
This bird is likewife in the Cabinet du Roi. Buffon * obferves,,.
* Hifi. ihi oif. vol. vi.. p, 3? i.
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