LITTLE MALAY CUCKOO-DOVE 251 
paler cream or café-au-lait. In fact, they are miniatures of the eggs of 
Macropygia tusalia, and like them are of two types and sizes, the single eggs 
being bigger than those laid in pairs, and also, as a rule, less true ellipses. 
The Little Malay Cuckoo-Dove is a bird of high elevations and 
seems never, even during the cold weather, to descend to the level of 
the plains, or, indeed, much below 2,000 ft. Robinson and Cook found 
it at about and over 4,000 ft., and my men reported it as very rare 
below this height. 
Hume states that in the Karen Hills about 3,000 ft. is its normal 
altitude. 
There is practically nothing on record about this little bird beyond 
what is noted by Davison, in Stray Feathers, to the following effect : 
“This bird is not very rare, but is still most difficult to obtain. It is 
extremely shy, and keeps to the densest parts of the forests; on 
Mooleyet in the mornings and evenings I used to hear numbers calling. 
The note is very peculiar, and sounds like Oo-who-who-oo, repeated 
quickly several times. The birds keep in small parties of four or six. 
They live on small fruits, and the stomachs of some I examined con- 
tained what looked to me like buds or tender undeveloped leaves.” 
