360 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
seem to attain to the very large size that birds from the Hima- 
layas* do. | 
208.—Cacomantis passerinus, Vahl. The Indian 
Plaititive Cuckoo. 
Not uncommon on the slopes of the Nilghiris which it ascends 
to about 5,500 feet. It also occurs, but more sparingly, in the 
Wynaad and Mysore country. 
212.—Coccystes jacobinus, Bodd. The Pied Crested 
Cuckoo. 
A common bird on the Nilghiris ; it avoids forest or thickly- 
wooded country, and fr equents cultivated land interspersed 
with scrub and bushes; it is most numerous perhaps about the 
cultivated land in the vicinity of Ootacamund, Coonoor, Kota- 
gherry, &e., &c. I have also seen it occasionally in the Wynaad, 
and not unfrequently: i in the Mysore country. It lays its eggs 
in the nest of the Malacocerci, which frequent the same sort of 
places that it does. 
213.—Coccystes coromandus, Zin. The Red-winged 
Crested Cuckoo. 
I have never myself obtained this species anywhere in the 
tract this paper deals with, but some years ago I saw a skin of 
this species in the possession of a native taxider mist, who said he 
had himself shot it in South-East Wynaad. 
214.—Eudynamis honorata, Lin. The Koel.’ 
I once shot a pair of this species ina garden at Ootacamund, 
but their cecurrence at that elevation is quite unusual ; the 
bird, however, is not uncommon on the lower slopes of the 
Nilghiris, and in the plains country. In March and April of 
181 I found them common in tne Wynaad, and yery noisy. 
216.—Rhopodytes viridirostris, Jerd. The Small 
Green-billed Malkoha. 
This species does not ascend the hills, but occurs, though 
nowhere very numerously, in the better wooded portions of the 
country about the base of the Nilghiris and Wynaad. 
The sexes do not differ appreciably in size, and the colours of 
the soft parts are the same in both. The following is a resumé 
of the dimensions, &c., recorded in the flesh :— 
* And a fortiori, from Upper Burmah,—EpD,, 8. F. 
