CUCULINZ. 125 
Male: upper plumage ashy, slightly glossed with green on 
the back and upper tail-coverts ; quills brown, also with a green 
gloss, and numerous close large white spots; tail deep ashy, 
almost black, with large white spots on the middle of each 
feather on the edge of the inner webs, and at the tip; beneath 
the chin and throat are pale ashy, with some rusty about the 
breast; the lower parts white, with rather narrow distant bars ; 
under tail-coverts spotless. 
Many adults have the upper parts fine rufous-bay, spotless on 
the forehead, sides of neck, and rump, but elegantly barred with 
dusky across the scapulars, wings and tail, and faintly on the 
crown, hind-neck, and interscapulars; throat, foreneck, and 
breast, whitish along the middle, stained with rufous laterally, 
and with dark bars more or less distinct; the rest of the lower 
parts broadly barred, as also are the tail-coverts. 
The Small Cuckoo has been obtained in various parts of the 
Deccan, but is rare; it has not been recorded from elsewhere 
within our district. 
Cuculus sonnerati, Lath. 
202.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 825; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 388. 
THE BanDED Bay Cuckoo. 
Length, 10; wing, 5; tail, 5; tarsus, 0°6; bill at front, 0°7. 
Above greenish-dusky, numerously crossed barred with rufous 
(which color, indeed, may be said to predominate), except on 
the coverts of the primaries; quills dusky-rufous on the 
edge of the outer web, pale internally; tail rufous, with a 
broad dusky bar near the end; the outer webs nearly dusky, 
and the tip white, and the inner webs with narrow bars; the 
whole under-parts, from the throat, white, very faintly tinged 
with fulvous on the flanks, and marked with numerous narrow 
dusky cross bars; sides of head and neck also white, similarly 
barred ; but the ear-coverts are colored like the back, and the 
frontal feathers are white at the base, showing conspicuously 
just over the bill. 
The young are more coarsely barred than adults, with pale 
rufescent on a blackish ground, and the breast is white, banded — 
with dusky, and aged individuals have the back and wings 
very faintly barred, the tail with the central feathers nearly all 
black, the edges scolloped with rufous, and the outer feathers with 
dusky. | 
The Banded Bay Cuckoo occurs sparingly in various parts of 
the Deccan and South Mahratta country, but only as a seasonal 
visitant. It does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 
Cuculus micropterus, Gould. 
203.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 826; Butler, Deecan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p, 388. 
