Ornith. Also couroucou, couroucoui. [The native name, of echoic origin, in Brazil and Guiana: in mod.F. couroucou.] A bird (Trogon curucui) found in Brazil and other parts of South America.
1678. Ray, Willughby’s Ornith., 140. The Brazilian Curucui of Marggrave. It is a very elegant and beautiful bird.
1781. Latham, Hist. Birds, I. 545. Couroucou.
1785. W. F. Martyn, Dict. Nat. Hist., Curucui, a bird of the woodpecker kind, found in Brazil.
1815. J. F. Stephens, Zool., IX. I. 4.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 118. The specimens … included … parrots, paroquets, couroucoui, pigeons.
