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along the ground when her nest is approached, but I do not remember ever 

 seeing any other game bird do so, though I have frequently come across nests 

 of monal, koklass and kalij pheasants. The former, when with chicks, will 

 often run along ahead of a dog taking short flights of a few feet, when it gets 

 too near, but never have I seen her actually simulate a broken leg or wing 

 or even flap along the ground, like a woodcock. 



C. H. DONALD, F.z.s. 

 Bushahr State, Simla District. 

 20th August 1908. 



No. NIX.— AN ADDITION TO THE INDIAN AVIFAUNA. 

 THE MALAYAN HAWK-CUCKOO (HIEROCOCCYX FUGAX). 



Amongst a number of skins sent to me from South Tenasserim to be identified 

 is a perfect skin of the Malayan form of the small Hawk-Cuckoo. The skin 

 sent is that of a male, shot on the 27th January 1908. This little Cuckoo is 

 very closely allied to our Indian bird H. nanus, the small Hawk-Cuckoo, and 

 replaces it in Malaya and possibly in the extreme south of Burma, though 

 this is the first specimen yet thence. Hierococcyx fur/ax, the Malayan Hawk- 

 Cuckoo, extends throughout Malaya, the Bornean Islands, south and South- 

 East Central China, and has been found by Alan Owston breeding as far north 

 as Japan. 



It has been generally accepted that this Hawk-Cuckoo is resident wherever 

 found but this is not yet proved though quite probably the case. It differs 

 from our bird principally in having a proportionately much larger bill, but is 

 otherwise very much the same. 



E. C. STUART BAKER. t\z.s., P.L.S. 

 Shillong, 21st August 1908. 



No. XX.— THE OOLOGY OF PARASITIC CUCKOOS. 



hi the last number of our Journal, No. 3 of Vol. XVIII, page 681, Mr. C. M. 

 Inglis has a note on the identification of certain Cuckoos' eggs taken by himself 

 and Mr. A. M. Primrose on the nests of JEtliopyga seheriai, the Himalayan 

 Yellow-backed Sunbird. This letter was written prior to the publication of my 

 " Additional Cuckoo Notes " which appeared in No. 2 of the same Volume and 

 Mr. Inglis will have seen from that, that it has been proved beyond all doubt 

 that some at least of these eggs are those of Chrysococcyx maculatus. the 

 Emerald Cuckoo. 



As I mentioned in the above article the young Cuckoo, which was taken by 

 Mr. Primrose from the Sunbird's nest and brought up until fully fledged, was 

 sent to me for identification and proved to be a young Emerald Cuckoo. At 

 the same time it is quite possible, even probable, that some of these eggs may 

 have been laid by C. xanthorhynchus, the Violet Cuckoo. 



