151 (;AHl)f:X AND AVIARY BIRDS. 



The quite young bird has a peculiar choking call when 

 crying for food, like ''' guk-kop-kop."' The note of the 

 old ones is a kind of hoot "hoop, hoop,"' and, like the 

 notes of Cuckoos generally, is heard more often than the 

 bird is seen. 



