Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

CUCULUS nigricans.

African Black Cuckow.

Family Cuculidæ.
Generic Character.—See Lesson. Man. 2. 119.

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Specific Character.

Black glossed with blue; quills internally white, with blackish bands; tips of the lateral tail feathers whitish; bill and legs black.

The genus Cuculus, even as now restricted, contains a number of species, dispersed over the continents and islands of the Old World. In America they are not known: but the genus Coccyzus, which there represents the group, is one of those few which are common to both hemispheres.