Descrvptim List of the Common Birds 



1 120), (J. 214), (III, but with a tail 8 inches 

 long.) 



Cock : A glossy black bird with a green bill 

 and crimson eye. As he flies he looks like a 

 slenderly built crow with an unusually long tail. 



Hen : A brown bird, spotted and barred all 

 over with white. Bill and eye as in cock. This 

 is an exceedingly noisy bird, and is most vocifer- 

 ous at dawn. It has three distinct calls. The 

 commonest is a crescendo : ku-il, ku-il, ku-il, 

 whence its name. Another call is ku-y-o. The 

 third is a torrent of kekaree, kekarees. (Illus. 

 B. D., pp. 218 and 220 ; also B. C, p. 92.) 



It is parasitic on crows. 



131. Centropus suiensis : The Common Cou- 

 cal, or Crow-Pheasant. (F. 1130), (J. 217), 

 (—IV, but with a tail 10 inches long.) 



A great black fowl with chestnut-red wings. 

 It feeds largely on the ground, and its long 

 tail sometimes causes the " griff " to mistake 

 it for a pheasant. 



Its call, which is heard at all times of the 

 day, but more especially at dawn, is a low, 

 loud, sonorous zvhoot, zvhoot, zuhoot, the kind of 

 call that one associates with an owl. 



It is not parasitic, but builds a large domed 

 nest in the innermost recesses of a dense 

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