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1s MALYAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
its small size and green plumage made it so difficult to sce, that 
it was several minutes before I caught sight of it and brought it 
down. 
I most carefully examined this bird, and found it to agree exactly 
with Jerpon’s description of Xantholema indica, with which it 
appears to be identical. It breeds in Pérak, in holes which it 
excavates in trees ; but personally I did not find a nest. The eggs 
are white. The sexes are alike. I met with it near Bukit Timah 
in Singapore. 
CucuLvUs mMicropterus (Gould.). The Indian Cuckoo. 
I heard what I supposed (and, I think, rightly) to be the ery 
of this Cuckoo in the jungle near Kwala Kangsa, Pérak ; it was 
very like the “cuck-oo ! cuck-oo !”’ of our well-known English species. 
I once, during September, shot a specimen of. C. micropterus 
near Cluny, Singapore. 
Hrerococcrx Frue@ax (Horsf.). The Hawk Cuckoo. 
Though common, I believe, in India, it certainly is not so in 
Malayana; I only met with it once, viz., in November, 1877, at 
Tanglin, Singapore. During the early part of the month a great 
many birds of different sorts flew into our barracks, and were 
caught by the soldiers. During one week, I had brought alive to 
me three Sparrow-hawks (Accipiter virgatus), a Scops Owl (Scops 
lempiji), and a most beautiful specimen of this Hawk-Cuckoo, all 
caught in the barrack-rooms. It was so like a Hawk in its general 
appearance that, on first seeing it, and not having before met with 
the species, for a minute I thought it to be one; but, on close 
inspection, the feeble beak and feet disclosed its true character. 
It was an immature female, and had been feeding on seeds and 
vegetable matter. 
I saw a specimen of this bird, shot by Mr. Davtson’s collector 
on Gunong Pulai, Johor, during August. 
CACOMANTIS THRENODES (Cab.). The Rufous-bellied Cuckoo. 
Plentiful both throughout the Straits Settlements and the 
interior of the peninsula. I got it in Pérak, Penang, Malacca, 
and Singapore; in the last-mentioned place it was quite common, 
though not often noticed, owing to its small size, plain colours, 
and habit of keeping, as a rule, to trees of dense foliage. It has 
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