126 CUCULINZ. 
THE INDIAN Cuckoo, 
Length, 12 to 12°5; expanse, 23; wing, 7°5; tail, 5°75 ; tarsus, 
0°75; bill at front, 0:96. 
Bill blackish, yellow at the base beneath, and at the gape ; irides 
pale dusky, or yellowish-brown ; orbits light wax-yellow; legs 
yellow. 
Upper parts darkish-ashy, pure on the head; throat and breast 
grey; abdomen white, with broad and tolerably distant dark- 
brown bars; quills brown, the inner webs with wider bars or 
spots than those of C. canorus ; tail concolorous with the body, 
or brownish-ashy ; a broad dark band at the end, narrowly tipped 
with white; in some with a few white spots, successively more 
developed on the outer tail-feathers. 
In old birds the color above is deep-ashy; but in those only 
once moulted the hue is a bronzed ash-brown, with the head and 
neck grey, and some slight traces of rufous on the sides of the 
neck and wings. The young are much mottled with blackish and 
white, especially on the head, neck, and back; the quills and tail 
have rufous bars and tips; but they have much less rufous than 
the young of C. canorus, and are much less barred. 
The Indian Cuckoo is commun along the Sahyadri range and 
adjacent forests; it has been obtained from other parts of the 
Deccan and South Mahratta country, and is not uncommon in the 
jungles on the Vindhian Range, but Major Butler did not meet 
hie it in Northern Guzerat, nor has it been recorded from 
ind, 
Genus, Hierococcyx, Miller. 
Bill stouter, deeper and wider, than in cuculws; wing shorter ; 
the fourth quill longest, and the fifth about equal to the second ; 
tail nearly even, broad, with distinct dark bars. 
Hierococcyx varius, Vahl. 
205.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 329; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 205; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 388; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 63. 
THE Common Hawk Cuckoo. 
Length, 13:4; expanse, 22°1; wing, 7°5; tail, 7; tarsus, 08; 
bill at front, 0°83; bill from gape, 1:2. 
Bill black on the culmen and tip, yellow beneath; orbits 
orange-yellow ; irides dull gamboge-yellow ; legs and feet yellow. 
Upper parts uniform ash-grey ; the winglet and coverts of the 
primaries darker; foreneck and breast pale rufous, each feather 
light grey in the centre ; belly and flanks white, barred with ad- 
joining lines of grey and rufous, the white hardly visible exterior- 
ly, from the overlapping of the feathers; thighs, vent, and lower- 
coverts, pure white, the first a little barred ; throat grey, and some 
white at the base of the bill and sides of the throat; tail grey, 
