12 Dr. T. C. Jerdon^s Supplementary Notes 



North Cacliar hills. It is considered distinct from duvaucelii, 

 to which 1 referred it (p. 315), and is figured in the concluding 

 number of Marshalls^ ' Capitonidse.' 



197. XanthoLjEMa indica must, it appears, bear the name 

 of X. H^MACEPHALA, Muller. 



198. Xanthol^ma malabarica. 



This is figured in Marshalls' Monograph, pt. vi. pi. xlvi. 



199. CucuLUs canorus. 



Mr. Brooks once found an egg in the nest of Pratincola 

 indica, and took another from the nest of Cupsychus suularis. 



200. CuCULUS HIMALAYANUS. 



This Cuckoo is now considered to be the true C. strtatus of 

 Drapiez ; but I see that Mr. G. Gray does not accept this con- 

 clusion. Mr. Swinhoe, however, does (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 395), 

 and moreover gives his C. monosyilabicus and C. kelungensis as 

 synonyms, and also, on Schlegel's authority, C. canoroides of 

 S. Muller. Gray makes C. saturatus, Hodgson, supersede hima- 

 layonus as the name of this Cuckoo, the reason for which I do 

 not see. Blyth had previously given optatus, Gould, as identical 

 (which Swinhoe also adopts), and in addition the following : — 

 teleophonus, Heine, from Japan ; swinhuii, Cabanis ; horsjleldi, 

 Moore; and libanoticus, Tristram; very possibly also C ruchi, 

 Hartl., from Madagascar, — truly a most formidable list of 

 synonyms. If I am right in my remarks on the Himalaya 

 Hierococcyx (see note, p. 14), all these names must give way to 

 flaviventris, Scopoli ! 



I cannot understand the call heard by Mr. Swinhoe and attri- 

 buted to this Cuckoo, from which he gave his name monosyila- 

 bicus. I am confident that I have correctly stated its usual 

 call, which I have heard very frequently since my work was 

 published, at Mussooree, where it is very abundant, and else- 

 where. 



A freshly killed specimen measured 12| inches, wing 7g, 

 extent 21|, tail 6. Another was 12|, wing 7^, extent 22, foot 

 2^. It varies a good deal in size, and especially in the propor- 

 tions of its bill. 



It not unfrcquently assumes the he})atic plumage. 



