CLAMATOR.
I lead crested; nostrils slit-like.
Clamator glandarius (L.). GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO.
d adult. Above grey brown with broad white tips to feathers, ashy on head ; beneath white, tinged yellowish on throat ; tail long, graduated, white tipped. Bill dark brown, yellowish at base below. Legs and feet blue grey. Wing 195-218 (H.). Tarsus 32-34. Bill 20-23. Young : crown and nape black, remainder upper parts dark brown, glossed green, primaries chestnut.
Breeds.—Spain, Portugal, N. Africa (Morocco to Egypt), and farther south in Africa ; also Asia Minor and Palestine. Occurs occasionally Greece and Italy ; rare visitor elsewhere in Europe, four times in British Isles. Winters tropical and S. Africa. Eggs placed in nests of " Corvidm."