438 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
128. Curysococcyx CUPREUS. 
Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 
p- 615. 
No. 1512. @ pull. River Ja, March 7, 1906. 
INo.. 165159 a, ad: 3 April 3, 1906. 
[This bird is supposed to utter its own name, “ Kuma- 
jaja,’ though it really pipes an indefinite number of 
syllables, and runs together those after the first two or 
three so rapidly that one cannot stop to say the rather 
difficult syllable “‘ja” in that way. 
The various calls of birds of the Cuckoo family con- 
stitute a large part of the most characteristic bird-sounds 
of this country. I have heard several of them imitated in 
the varied song of Turdus saturatus. 
C. cupreus has been found with large breeding-organs in 
June, July, and December. As stated before (‘ Ibis, 1905, 
p. 96), I once saw a young Chrysococcyx seated on a branch, 
being fed by a female Tchitrea viridis. 
All the members of the Cuckoo family named thus far 
live almost exclusively on caterpillars. This species was 
heard in the Zima Country.—G. L. B.] 
129. CENTROPUS ANSELLI. 
Centropus anselli Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 466. 
No. 1231. Gad. River Ja, Jan. 2, 1906. Testes mode- 
rately developed. 
No. 1515. 6 ad. [moulting]. River Ja, March 7, 1906. 
Testes rather large. 
No. 1580. 92? imm. River Ja, March 21, 1906. Eggs 
forming. 
No. 1709. ¢ juv. River Ja, June 1, 1906. 
No. 2062. 9 imm. Bitye, River Ja, Nov. 12, 1906. 
{This is more of a forest-species than its other congeners ; 
I have found it only at the Ja, but there it is not rare. 
That it sometimes kills and eats smaller birds is proved by 
a curious incident. My first specimen, No. 599, which was 
caught in a snare on the ground, had in its stomach the 
neck, the skull-bones, an eye, and a bit of feathered skin 
