Himalayan and Kashmiri Birds 



Head grey. Back brown. Tail barred black 

 and white, thin throat and upper breast 

 ashy-grey. Rest of lower parts cream-coloured 

 with black crossbars, about half as broad as 

 the pale interspaces. 



Call very distinctive. It may be rendered 

 by the words zvherefor^ wherefor musically 

 intoned. In imitation of its call the bird is 

 often called the Kyphul pakka, or broken- 

 pekoe bird. 



Common at Darjeeling, Naini Tal and Mus- 

 soorie, but further west it does not ascend the 

 Himalayas as far as the hill stations ; the bird 

 is, however, sometimes heard at Dalhousie. 



136. Hierococcyx sparveriodes : The Large 

 Hawk-Cuckoo. F. 1108, J. 207, III, with 

 rather a long tail. E. W. 



Head grey. Back brown. Tail brown with 

 broad dark cross bands and tipped with white. 

 Lower plumage pale rusty with brown cross- 

 bars. 



This is a large race of the Hawk-Cuckoo, or 

 brain-fever bird of the plains. I am not able 

 to distinguish between the calls of the two 

 species. It is a loud crescendo scream, which 

 may be rendered, " brain-fever, brain-fever^ 



BRAIN-FEVER." 



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