CUCKOOS 81 



the Bengali name for the bird, " Boukotaku." It 

 avoids the immediate neighbourhood of the town, 

 but abounds among the trees in the Botanic Garden 

 at Shibpur every hot weather. At rare intervals 

 during the same time of year the melodious notes 

 of the plaintive cuckoo, Cacomantis passerinus, are 

 audible for a day or two. Curiously enough, this 

 cuckoo, like the koil, ventures to visit gardens 

 well within urban limits. 



