. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . fcanforii. Un. Sjji, Nat, />. 16 3. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Cuculus ? nIgro-caErulefcens, remigibus phoeniceis, roftro rubro fuper fron-tenn flavo, occipite purpureo. U O D evitandam, quantum fieri poITjt, cenfeam novorunn generum infli-tucionein, ex qua fepe oriuntur error et confufio, magnificain hanc avemnomine tabulae infcripto defignavi, Fatendum fane eft non modo banc fedet Cuculun:! Perfam Linnasi, cui affinis videtur, a reliquo^ genere fejungi, etin diltinfto et fibi proprio debere numerari, quippe turn roftris turn corpo
. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . fcanforii. Un. Sjji, Nat, />. 16 3. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Cuculus ? nIgro-caErulefcens, remigibus phoeniceis, roftro rubro fuper fron-tenn flavo, occipite purpureo. U O D evitandam, quantum fieri poITjt, cenfeam novorunn generum infli-tucionein, ex qua fepe oriuntur error et confufio, magnificain hanc avemnomine tabulae infcripto defignavi, Fatendum fane eft non modo banc fedet Cuculun:! Perfam Linnasi, cui affinis videtur, a reliquo^ genere fejungi, etin diltinfto et fibi proprio debere numerari, quippe turn roftris turn corporishabitu ab aliis difFerant. Inter ( i56 ) Inter aves rarifllinas habenda eft fpecies de qua jam agitur. Tota capitcremigibufque exceptis, fplendide nigrat cyaneo perfufa. Roftrum fulvum, feurubefcens ; qua parte fuper frontem aflurgit, leviter melinum. Utrinque abafi mandibularum ftiia alba retro paululum excurrit. Vertex capitis occiput-que atro-purpurea. Remiges eximie phcenicei. Crura fulca. Atricam interj-orem incolit Cuculus rcgius. THE. KY/../,l,//,. CITCUILIJS RlEGllTS, THIE, IROTAIL ^ ( ^^^7 ) THE ROYAL CUCKOV/. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fomewhat bounded by a fmall fhort, fcanforial. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Black Cuckow ? with a glofs of blue -, crimfon rerriges; red beak yellowon the front; back of the head purple. IT is merely from a wilh to avoid the confuficn arifing from the inftitutionof new genera without abfolute neceffity, that the magnificent bird herereprefented in called by the title expreffed on the plate. In faft, not onlythis bird, but the Cuculus Perfa of Linnsus, (with which it feems to have aconfiderable affinity,) ought to be feparated from the genus Cuculus, and ar-ranged in a diflind oncj their beaks and whole habit differing fronv the reH:o£ the cuckow tiibe. The C i^-3 } The fpecies here figured is extremely rare. The whole bird, except thehead and remigcs, is of a deep black, with a rich caft of gloflfy
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