IOO C U C K O W .
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•f- CRESTED
BLACK C,
Crefted Black Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 519. N° 11,
Cuculus ferratus, Sparnn. Mu/. Carl/, pi. iii,
JW JR . Sparrman takes his trivial name from the lhape o f the
. white fpot on the wing being not unlike the teeth o f a Jaw
at the back part of i t ; this arifes from the obliquity of the white
on each quill, which, when they are fomewhat open, may give it
fuch an appearance. It is not, however, the cafe in my fpecimen,
as it merely appears as an irregular patch on the wing.
16.
Y ar, B.
D e s c r i p t io n , ,
Egyptian Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ii, p. 323. Var. B.
g I Z E of the Rain Cuckow : length nineteen inches and a half.
Bill an inch and a half long, flout, curved, and of a black colour
; noftrils almoft covered with fhort feathers: upper eyelid
furniflied with eight or nine bridles: the head and neck dufky
brown, and the feathers narrow ; the fore part, as far as the bread,
marked down the fhafts with indidinft pale fpots and bars; the
hind part plain : wing coverts deep rufous, obfcurely barred with
dufky: quills barred rufous and blackilh, alternate, about twenty
o f each : tail ten inches long, cuneiform; the outer feather only
five inches in length ; colour o f the feathers black, barred with
numerous oblique dufky white lines, not correfponding on each
fide the fhafts : the belly, thighs, upper and under tail coverts,
dufky, crofied with numerous white lines : legs fhort, flout,
rough; the inner hind toe furnifhed with a flrait claw, like that
o f a Lark, and one inch in length : on the infide bf the bend of the
wing a lhort blunt fpur.
Inhabits
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Inhabits China. The above fpecimen in the colleftion of Sir P l a c e .
Jbfeph Banks. It feems greatly to coincide with my fhort de-
fcription of the fecond variety, the Egyptian Cuckow *, i f not the
fame bird.
I obferve one greatly fimilar among the drawings of Lady Im-
pey, ferving to afcertain its inhabiting the coaft of Coromandel ; but
this feems to have the neared refemblance to my fird variety, the
plumage being black throughout, except the wings, which are of
a bright ferruginous flame-colour j the prime quills barred with
black. This is known in India by the name of Crow-Pheafant. I
fuppofe it to be a voracious bird, as the Indian name fignifies De-
•vourer with the Mouth.
Honey Cuckow, Gen. Syn.ii. p. 533. N° 31. , j
IGnat-Snapper, Kolb. Cap. vol.ii. p. 154? HONEY C. t p H E male bird is faid to have the bafe o f the bill (capiftrum)
encircled with black f .
Lobos, in his Voyage to Abyffinia\, fpeaks o f a bird called Mo-
roc, which has the inftindt: of difcovering honey : but from his account,
it is that which is collefted by the Ground Bees j as he fays
that they keep their holes in the ground extremely clean; that,
though common in the highways, they are feldom found, except
by the Moroc’s affiftance. The Ratel (a fpecies of Weejel)J, at
times profits by the Honey Cuckow, watching the motion of that
bird on all occafions; when, if the bird diredts him to that £ P. 52.which
8vo.
is collefted under ground, it is enabled to get at it fufficiently
animal,
eafy : on the contrary, if the Bee's nefl is s
in a tree, the difappointed
* Gen. Syn. vol.ii. p. 523, B. f Sparrm. Voy. ii. p. 191.
edit. 1735. I! BiJt.Quadr. N°zzo.