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(140) HiEROCOCCYX VAK1U8.— The Common Hawk Cuckoo. 

 Blanford, No. 1109 ; Hume, No. 205. 

 Abundant. Two females shot on the 21st June had each a fully shelled 

 egg in the oviduct ; one was unfortunately smashed by the shot but the other 

 was perfect and is now in my collection. The " brain fever " bird, as it is 

 called, is very noisy during the breeding season, commencing to make itself 

 heard in March ; at other times of the year it is very silent. Mir-shikar's name 

 Barova. 



(141) CoccYSTES JACOBINUS. — The Pied Crested Cuckoo. 

 Blanford, No, 1118 ; Hume, No. 212. 

 Very common from May to the beginning of October. An egg was obtained 

 on the 27th July from a nest of Crateropus canorus containing six eggs belong- 

 ing to the latter bird. The cuckoo was not seen on the nest but came out of 

 the mango tree on which the babblers had the nest, and the parasitic egg is if 

 anything rounder than the others. I have many times seen C. canorus feeding 

 young of this species. Native name Pupiya. 



Subfamily Phoenicophaince. 

 (142) EgDYNAMis HONOBATA. — The Indian Koel. 

 Blanford, No, 1120 ; Hume, No. 214. 

 Abundant. It lays its eggs in the nests of Corvus splendens from May to 

 July. I have never taken eggs from the nests of C. macrorhynchus. Re the 

 number of eggs laid by this species E give the following extract : — 

 July 7th, 1897— One young Koel. 



„ 9th „ — One young Koel and 3 young crows. 

 May 19th, 1898 — 3 fresh Koel's eggs and 1 incubated crow's egg. 

 „ 21st „ — 1 fresh Koel's egg and 2 incubated crow's eggs. 

 June 17th „ — 5 fresh Koel's e^gs. 



July 2nd „ — 2 fresh Koel's eggs and 2 highly incubated crow's egga. 

 A young bird which I had, used to sit on the whole of its tarsus and 

 swallowed a plantain quite 3 inches long. 



(143) Taccocua leschenaulti. — The Sirkeer Cuckoo. 

 Blanford, No. 1129 ; Hume, No. 222. 

 This species is rather rave round Narhar and Jainagar, but Scroope says it 

 ia not uncommon elsewhere in the subdivision. Outside this subdivision I 

 have found it common everywhere, I took many nests near Baghownie 

 Factory from April to September, These birds can run very well. They 

 have a habit of running a short distance and then raising their bodies and 

 having a good look round, then off they scuttle again keeping their bodies 

 almost horizontal with the ground. Native name Soolhool. 



(144) Centropus sinensis. — The Common Coucal. 

 Blanford, No. 1130 ; Hume,'So. 217 quat. 

 Very common. Mr. G, Dalgliesh told me they were not common round 

 Dttlsing Sarai. It breeds from June to September. In Hume's Nests and 



