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in Mr. Jerdon's catalogue, though I doubt not it is occasionally met 

 with throughout the wooded parts of the country. A specimen from 

 the Malay peninsula has already been noticed, and I presume it to be 

 the Javanese C. striatus of M. Drapiez, if not also Dr. Horsfield's 

 Javanese slight variety of C. canorus ; I also find it included in 

 Mr. Vigne's catalogue of his collection of birds procured in Kashmir 

 and Little Tibet (Proc. Zool. Soc, January 26, 1841). About Cal- 

 cutta it is not rare, though I have hitherto been able to procure but 

 one recent specimen ; but I have often heard the musical note of ano- 

 ther in possession of a native, and from which is derived its Bengalee 

 appellation of Bocuttdcko. Lieut. Tickell termed this a double repeti- 

 tion of the sound cuckoo, and the tone of utterance is much the same as 

 in the last species, or it may be styled a melodious deep-toned whistle, 

 agreeable to hear despite its monotonous reiteration. Among the natives 

 this bird is an especial favorite. The captive specimen had the same 

 pale feet and orbits, as compared with the European species, and light 

 dusky irides, as in that which I procured for the Museum : but neither 

 of these were in the final pure grey plumage, but in what I have 

 described as their second dress. The name Dunmun, which according 

 to Dr. Latham this species bears in Calcutta, seems to be quite un- 

 known here. 



5. C. poliocephalus, Latham, Gen. Hist. III., 181, — the grey old 

 male; C. Himalayanus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 172, — Gould's Cen- 

 tury, pi. LIV., but the tarse erroneously represented as unfeathered ; — 

 not of Jerdon, Madr. Jour. XL, 220 : the female, or dress corresponding 

 to that occasional livery of C canorus upon which was founded the fic- 

 titious C. hepaticus. (Small Himalayan Cuckoo.) Male exactly re- 

 sembling the mature examples of the last species in colour, except 

 that the specimen examined has a stain of rufous on the breast, as 

 often happens in younger males, and especially females, of C. canorus, 

 (though the bird here described had nearly quite assumed this livery 

 for at least the second time) ; but the size is very much smaller, this 

 measuring but ten inches to ten and a quarter in length, the wing five 

 inches and seven-eighths, or commonly a trifle less, and tail five inches 

 and one-eighth; bill from forehead eleven-sixteenths of an inch, and from 

 gape an inch ; tarse posteriorly five-eighths of an inch. It is possible that 

 old females assume a similar garb ; and that young males, once moulted, 



