THE KOEL AND ITS ALLIES 



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Bengal it arrives in May and is in 

 evidence up to the rains, after which, in 

 September, it moves down probably to- 

 wards the south. I have noticed that 

 grassy and cultivated plains with small 

 trees and bushes scattered about are 

 its favourite resorts. ^^ 



But Stuart Baker writes, 

 *'It haunts mdiff- ' / 



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erently lof- 

 tiest of trees 



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secondary growth and small saplings or 

 mere scrub jungles". It is most numerous 

 in the more wooded districts. It hunts 

 singly or in pairs, and unlike the last three 

 Cuckoos, it generally feeds on the ground. 

 Somehow or other, Coccystes jacobinus also 

 is an eyesore of the crows, though they 

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