410 cucuui 



Si It was an elongated cylindrically ovate egg, neatly the same size at both 

 ends, which are obtuse, pure white and glossy ; size o 81 by 0-57 inch. 



990 CllCUlUS Soniieratii, Lath , Ind. Orn. i. p. 215 ; Jerd., B, Jnd. 

 > P 3 2 5> No 220; Wold., Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 55 ; Blyth, B. Burnt., 

 p. 80 ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped. p. 587; Eume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 156; 

 Lfgge, B. Ceylon p. 233 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 88 ; Vidal, Sir. F. ix. p. 54 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 107. The BANDED CUCKOO. 



General colour above dusky tinged with greenish and closely barred with 

 rufous ; the wing coverts barred with paler rufous or white ; outer web of 

 quills rufescent ; tail rufous, the feathers dusky on the outer webs ; the inner 

 webs narrowly barred, the tip white and with a subterminal broad, dusky bar ; 

 beneath, from throat, white, tinged with fulvous on the flanks and marked with 

 numerous narrow dusky cross bars ; sides of the head and neck white barred 

 with dusky ; ear coverts dusky. 



The young are more coarsely barred than adults, with pale rufescent on a 

 blackish ground ; breast white, banded with dusky ; central feathers of tail 

 nearly black, the edges scolloped with rufous ; outer feathers dusky. (Jerd.) 

 Bill dusky ; irides brown ; legs greenish grey. 



Length. 9*5 inches ; tail 4*5 ; wing 4-8 ; tarsus 07 ; bill from gape ri. 



Hab. Peninsular India and Ceylon, also Tenasserim and the Indo- 

 Burmese countries. Jerdon records it from the forests of Malabar and Travan- 

 core, where he says it is tolerably common ; also from the sides of the Neilgh.r- 

 ries and in the Wynaad, and more rarely on the Eastern Ghauts about the 

 latitude of Madras. In Burmah it has been procured at Thayetmyo. 



991 . Cuculus micropterus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137; 



Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 326, No. 203 ; Swinhoe, P Z. S, 1871, p. 395 ; Blyth 

 and Wald. y B. Burm. p. 79 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine p. 64 ; Hume and 

 Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 156; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 228; Hume, Sir. F. viii. 

 p. 88 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 193 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. ICH. Cuculus affinis 

 (A. Hay), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 18; Blyth, B, Burm. p. 79; Wardlaw* 

 Ramsay ', Tweedd. Mem. p. 67 I ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 8. Cuculus striatus, 

 (Drap.) apud. Jerd. i. p. 328, No. 204 The INDIAN CUCKOO. 



Upper parts, including the wings, dark ashy, purer on the forehead ; crown, 

 nape, sides of the head and neck, also ihe cheeks, ashy ; chin, throat and 

 breast grey ; inner webs of quills barred with white ; tail ashy brown, tipped 

 with whitish, and with a subterminal broad dark band ; all the feathers with 

 white shaft spots, which become bars on the outermost ones ; the edges of 

 the centre feathers scolloped with rufous ; abdomen, vent and sides of the 

 body white, ba'nded broadly throughout with black ; upper tail coverts brown, 

 tinged with ashy ; under tail coverts white, with a few nearly obsolete bars. 

 The young are dark brown ; the upper surface is broadly tipped with rufous 



