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CUCULINiE. 



CrcuLTTS CANonuR, L. Pegu and irartaban. 



C. So.NXKKATii, Lath. Pogu. TenassL'rira. Java. 



C. MicitoiTERi-.s, Gould, i, . Tenasscrim. Java. 



C. striatus, DrapifZ, ? . Andamaiis. Kicobars. 



Hume first discovered that those two species (as supposed) were merely differcut 

 sexes of the same bird (S.F. iii. 79). 



HiEROcoccrx NANUS, Hume. Southern Tenasscrim. 



H. Nisicoi.oK, Hodg. ^ Tenasscrim. 



For the doubtful synonym}- of this species, see S.F. v. p. 96. 



II. spAuvEKOiDEs, Vig. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



II. sfrenuus, Gould. 



This .species has a fine loud cull, and from its hawk-like aspect and mode of 

 flight, darting suddenly from one cluni]) of trees to another, causes dreadful commotion 

 aniiJii:;- all the small birds of the neighbourhood, who mistake it for a hawk (Davison, 

 S.r. vi. p. 157). 



Cacomantes threxopes. Cab. Bengal. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



- C. rtificentris, Jerd. 



The earlier name is applicable to tlie smaller race, which is found in Southern 

 Tenasserim, whilst the larger race of Bengal sjireads down into Pegu, and blends with 

 the other to the south (S.F. vi. p. 158). 



Poi.vi'HAsiA TENTJiKosTKis, Gray. Bengal. Arakan. Tenasserim. 



The Indian race is distinguishable from the Burmese, -where grey-billed specimens 

 are not met with, but the two races merge into each other, and, according to Blyth, 

 in Bengal you meet with " every variation and shade of intermediateness." It lays 

 its eggs in the nest of some species of Prinia. 



SuENicuLus LroriiRis, Horsf. Arakan. Tenasserim. Java. Ceylon. 



<S'. d/cruroiries, Hodg. 



Jerdon describes this remarkable cuckoo as "clad completely in the disguise 

 of a common king-crow " {JJicrunia), whilst Davison shot a specimen in the act 

 of being fed by its foster-parent, I), annedmu, and Blyth plausibly conjectures 

 that the pure white eggs sometimes found in the nests of JJicruri belong to it. 



Lampeococotx maculatus, Gmel. Arakan. Tenasserim. 



Cucuhis Mitlaynnus, Baffles. 

 CuALcococcYX XAXTHORHTNCHus, Hoi'sf. Pcgu. Tsnasserim. Andamans. 



A rare species described in S.F. ii. p. 191. 

 CoccTSTEs coKOMANDUs, L. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



This species lays blunt blue eggs in the nests of the Malacocerci or ' Quaker 

 thrushes.' 



C. Jacobinus, Bodd. Pegu. 



Fielden describes this bird as hawking moths like a Brongo, and having noticed 

 a pair of young birds together, concludes that it lays two eggs in one nest. 



EuDYNAMYs iI.u:,AyANA, Cab. and Heine. Arakan. Pegu. Andamans. 



Oo-aw. Nioobars. Tenasserim. 



This species is migratory in Tenasserim, a few only being resident ; but in 

 March, according to Davison, "the whole place becomes alive -with them, and they 

 continue very numerous till July," when the bulk of them disappear. Their note 

 resembles the -words ' who are you,' and is so incessantly repeated as to become 

 a perfect nuisance (Davison). This species is the Bumiese representative of the 

 common India ' Coel,' and doubtless, like it, lays its eggs in the nest of some crow. 



