P lace.
form ; outer feathers dufky, with brown tips ; the others marked
with bars of black, and narrow ones of brown: legs black : the
inner hind toe has a long ftrait claw like a Lark.
Inhabits Bengal.
The three laft feem to bear affinity to each other, though the
produce of different countries; the general mark of the neck
and head feathers having' the longitudinal ftripe in the middle,
and all of them the heel of a Lark.
20.
SACRED
C.
Cuculus honoratus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 169. N° 7.
Le Coucou tachete de Malabar, B r iJ orn. iv. p. 136. N° 15. pi. n . A»
f. 2.— PI. enl. 294.
Le Cuil, Buf, oif. vi. p. 375.
D escription. ^ 1 'HIS is fomewhat lefs than our Cuckow: length eleven inches
and a half. General colour blackifh afh on the upper parts,
marked with two fpots of white on each feather; beneath white,
tranfverfely fpotted with afh-colour: quills cinereous, tranfverfely
fpotted with white: tail much cuneated, five inches and a half
long, and of the fame colour as the quills; the outer feather
Place.
only three inches long: legs and claws pale afh-colour. '
Inhabits Malabar, where the natives hold it facred. It feeds
on reptiles, which, perhaps, may be fuch as are the moft noxious;
if fo, this feeming fuperftition may have rife from a more reafon-
able foundation than many others of the like fort. „
Le Coucou brun & jaune à ventrèrayé, Buf. pif. vi. 379,
Coucou à ventre rayé de l’Ifle de Panay, Son. Voy. 120. t. 79.
'J 'H IS bird is equal in fize to our Cuckow. The bill is black :
the irides orange : throat and fides of the head the colour of
wine-lees : upper part of the head blackifh grey : back and wings
dull brown black : under part of the quills, neareft the body,
fpotted with white : tail black, even at the end, barred and
tipped with white : breaft dull yellow colour : belly light yellow :
both breaft and belly barred with black : legs reddilh.
Inhabits the IJle of Panay, one of the Philippine IJlands.
Le petit Coucou à tête grife & ventre jaune, B u f .p if. vi. 382. N° 13.
Le Coucou petit de Plüe de Panay, Spit. Vpy. p. 122. t. 81._PI. enl. 814,
t)f a Blackbird t not indeed lb, thick, but longer t length
more than eight inches. Bill pale yellow; point black:
upper part of the head and throat light grey : irides yellow : hind
part of the neck, the back, and wings, are of an umber-colour, or
light brown : belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, pale yellow,
with a tinge of rufous : tail wedged, more than half the length of
the bird, black, barred with white : legs pale yellow.
Inhabits the IJle of Panay.
Le Coucou vert doré & blanc, Buf. pif. vi. p. 383.
Coucou vert du Cap de Bonne Eiperance, PI. ent. 657.
§ 1ZE of a fmall Thrulh : length feven inches, Bill feven or
eight lines long, and of a greenilh brown colour : the upper
parts,
2 1 . PANAYAN
C.
D escription.
Place.
YELLOWBELLIED
C.
D escrip t ion*
Place.
23*
GILDED
C.
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