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"Bill black ; mouth inside salmon- 

 color. Iris pale reddish brown ; eyelids 

 plumbeous. Legs plumbeous, claws 

 horny," 



Head crested, plumage not barred. 

 Tail as long as the body. Upper parts 

 dark metallic green, with incomplete 

 white collar on the nape. Throat and 

 breast fawn color. Abdomen light grey. 

 Under tail coverts dark green. Wings 

 rufous. 



Young birds have most of the feathers 

 of the upper plumage tipped with pale 

 rufous, especially noticeable on the 

 crown. 



Distribution. — India, South and 

 Central China. Summer visita^it on the 

 hills in the Yangtse Valley. It is not 

 uncommon on Mokanshan. 



Notes. — This bird frequents the hilly 

 areas and rarely comes to even the 

 lower hills that are isolated. It has a 

 loud call that may be heard for quite 

 a distance. " The call is dissyllabic 

 and may be written ' Kuk-kuk '." 



These other cuckoos have also been 

 taken in the Yangtse Valley : — 



Cuculus optatus (Gould?), Dark or 

 Hill Cuckoo. 



Cuculus intermedius Vahl., Small 

 Cuckoo. 



Hierococcyx fugax nisicolor (Blythj, 

 Hawk Cuckoo. 



ORDER, CORACIIFORMES, ROLLER-LIKE 

 BIRDS. 



The birds composing this group are 

 arboreal in their habits and quite 

 cosmopolitan in distribution. In the 

 majority of cases they nest in holes 

 and lay white eggs, and the young are 

 hatched blind and helpless. They 



