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blackish brown; the undersurface of the wings closely barred with 

 white and dark brownish gray. The immature has the upper parts 

 dark brown with indistinct light rufous bars and edgings ; the under- 

 pays buffy, heavily streaked and spotted with blackish brown ; the 

 undersurface of the wings as in the adult. 



CUCULUS FUGAX NISICOLOR BIyth 



Hodgson's Fugitive Hawk Cuckoo 

 C[uculus] nisicolor Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 1843, p. 943 (Nepal). 



This small hawk cuckoo is known from northern Thailand by a 

 single specimen : a juvenile male taken by me at Ban Hai Huai Som, 

 Nan Province, June 15, 1936. The next nearest locality from which 

 the bird is known is Tha Chang Tai, near Rahaeng, where Gairdner's 

 collector took a juvenile male, July 15, 1924; this is the specimen re- 

 corded in the Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. SuppL, 1928, p. 168, and 

 now deposited in Washington. Since both specimens came from lo- 

 calities under 1,000 feet above sea level, the species should be sought 

 for in lowland areas of mixed-deciduous or open evergreen forest. 



I have not seen the adult of this bird, which is said to have the 

 upperparts slaty gray and the underparts largely rufous. The im- 

 mature is a much smaller edition of the corresponding age of the 

 preceding species. Both adult and immature have the tail tipped 

 with rufous and barred black and brownish gray; the black band 

 next to the rufous tip is much the broadest and the light band adja- 

 cent to it is much narrower than the others. 



CUCULUS MICROPTERUS MICROPTERUS Gould 



Indian Short- winged Cuckoo 



Cuculus micropterus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837 [=1838], p. 137 



(Himalayas; type locality restricted to Sirnla-Almora districts, apud 



Stuart Baker). 

 Cuculus micropterus, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 232 



(listed) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 593 ("Northern Siam"). 

 Cuculus micropterus micropterus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 



1931, p. 159 (Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 87 (Doi Suthep). 



The short- winged cuckoo is, to judge from the ubiquity of its song, 

 one of the commonest birds of the northern mountains, yet it is rarely 

 seen and has been collected in our area only once or twice. During my 

 entire stay in Thailand I took but one specimen: an adult male at 

 2,700 feet on Doi Suthep, May 17, 1936. I failed to find, either in 

 Stockholm or in Hannover, Eisenhofer's example, upon which Gylden- 

 stolpe based his published record (1915). 



Like the large hawk cuckoo, this is a bird of the more open forest, 

 both evergreen and pine. On Doi Suthep the song was heard from 

 March 12 (1932) to June 7 (1930), both day and night, on all sides, 



