Description
Rare c.18th engraving of the second printed image of the Channel-billed Cuckoo, the worlds largest cuckoo and often incorrectly described as a Hornbill due it’s large beak.
Common names: Channel-billed Cuckoo, Storm Bird, Fig Hawk and Flood Bird.
Modern binomial name: Scythrops novaehollandiae
First described: Latham 1790
Distribution: WA, NT, QLD, NSW
From John White’s, Journal of a voyage to New South Wales.
