1875.] Cuckoos. 79 



Fam. Cuculidse. 



Cuckoos. 

 *132. HlEEOCOCCTX SPAEVEEIOIDES (J. 207).* 



Arakan, Malacca. 



[Rangoon, Yey-tho, Karen nee at 4000 feet {W. JR.); Pahpoon (Z>.).] 



133. H. vaeius (J. 205). 



This species can hardly but occur, as also H. nisicolor (J. 206) ; but in 

 the Malay countries they would seem to be replaced by S. hyperythrus, 

 Gould,f 0I> which Cuculus fug ax, Horsfield, is the young bird. H. varius is 

 common in the Dacca district of Eastern Bengal, and Jerdon gives it from 

 "Burma and Malacca," but I do not remember to have seen a specimen 

 from the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal. 



134. Cuculus miceopteetis (J. 203) and C. aefinis (J. 204). 



These differ only in size, and have the same note hholcatdlco, which I 

 often heard in the vicinity of Moulmein during the rainy season, but did not 

 obtain a specimen. Both races occur in Java, and C. affinis occurs both in 

 Nipal and the Malayan peninsula. Of necessity both of them must inhabit 

 the Indo-Chinese countries. I have never seen a specimen of intermediate 

 dimensions. 



[Mr. Hume (Str. Feath. iii. p. 79) makes the important statement that 

 the above numbers of Jerdon belong respectively to the male and female. If 

 this be so, a hitherto much disputed question is satisfactorily settled.] 



135. C. CANOET7S (J. 199). 



A specimen of this bird, in the plumage of immaturity, was shot in my 

 presence, in the garden of the Commissioner, at Moulmein. Mr. Wallace 

 obtained it in Timor. 



[Karen nee at 3500 feet (W. It.) ; Prome {Raihes).'] 



136. C. steiatus (J. 200). 



C. striatus, Drapiez ; Ibis, 1866, p. 359 ; 1872, p. 12. 

 The range of this Cuckoo extends from the Himalaya to China and 



* Mr. Hume gives S. strenuus, Gould, from Thayet Myo. P. A. S. B. 1872, p. 71. 

 [The Thayet Myo example of the supposed Philippine H. strenuus, here alluded to, was 

 nothing hut E. sparverioides.] 

 t B. As. pt. viii. pi. 15. 



