1920.] Birds of Nurtli-East (JhikU. 911 



with white or whitish. There is a white spot on tlic nape. 

 From the chin to the breast the feathers are edited witli 

 blackish, more broadly on the chin and throat. 



A young bird was brought to me from the liills on the 

 15th oP July, 1917, which, so its captor told me, had been 

 taken from a Meadow-Bunting's (^Emberlza cioides) nest. 

 The npper parts were ashy brown, each feather narrowly 

 edged Avith white. There was a white s[)ot over one eye and 

 one on the occiput. The throat was white barred with black, 

 the rest of the under parts was buffy white, narrowly barred 

 with blackish grey, the sides of the head Mere speckled with 

 white. Legs orange-flesh, bill greenish black, gape aiul 

 base of lower mandible yellow, mouth orange-vermilion, 

 iris brown. On the 21st of July it could fly quite well. 

 1 fed it on minced or chopped raw beef, green-bean paste 

 and bread and milk, its favourite food being raw beef. On 

 the .'24-th it was getting quite wild and showed a desire to 

 pick up its food unaided. On the 'iGth it (ed unassisted and 

 when approached Avould peck at one's fingers and fly oft\ 

 I released it on the 5tli of August, when it flew well. On 

 this day the iris of this bird was greyish brown, the rim of 

 the eyelid was greenish grey, the bill orange-flesh with the 

 culmen and the i)oint of the lower mandil)le dark green, the 

 mouth was orange-red. The bird had been wild for some 

 days, fiercely pecking at one's hand and flying oft' without 

 touching the food oft'ered to it so long as it was held in one's 

 fingers. 



152. Cuculus satm'atus Hodgson. 



Cuculus sir i at us D. & O. p. 65. 



I found on the beach at the port on the 7th of June, 1911, 

 an almost skeletonized specimen in hepatic plumage of the 

 Himalayan Cuckoo. Wing 7"35 in. The specimen was sent 

 to the Natural History Museum. Another example, a 

 female in hepatic plumage also, wing 7'80iu., was shot here 

 on the 29th of August, 1913. It agrees f;iirly well in all 

 but size with a female from Fohkien. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. de C. Sowerby for the loan of an 



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