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BIHDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Mr. Blyth records it from Moulmein in Tenasserim^ and Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay found it abundant on the tableland of Karennee. 
It occurs, according to season, over the greater portion of Asia, Europe 
and Africa. 
The European Cuckoo appears to be merely a winter visitor to Burraah ; 
but a few may breed in this country, for on the 8th of August I once shot 
a bird which was so young that it was in all probability born in Burmah 
or close by in one of the adjacent countries. I have never heard its 
familiar call in Burmah; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay states that he heard 
the note quite commonly in Karennee. It is well known that this Cuckoo 
lays its eggs in the nests of other birds ; and if it breeds in Burmah its 
egg will probably be found in the nest of some Timeliine bird. 
489. CUCULUS MICEOPTEEUS. 
THE INDIAN CUCKOO. 
Cuculus micropterus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 326. no. 203 ; 
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 395 ; Bl. Sr Wald. B. Burm. p. 79 ; mime, S. F. iii. 
p. 79 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 64 ; Hume Sf- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 156 ; Legge, 
Birds Ceijlon, p. 228 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 193. 
Cuculus affinis, A. Hay, Bl. J. A. S. B. xv. p. 18 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 79 , 
Wardlaw Bamsay, Tiveedd. Mem. p. 671 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. Cuculus 
striatus (Drap.), ajmd Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 328. no. 204. 
•Description. — Male and female. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of head 
and neck and the cheeks ashy, pale on the sides of the forehead ; chin, 
throat and fore neck pale ashy ; upper plumage and wings brown ; the 
inner webs of the quills barred with white j the upper tail-coverts tinged 
with ashy ; tail ashy brown, tipped with whitish and with a broad sub- 
terminal black band ; all the feathers with white spots along the shaft, 
turning to bars on the outermost ones ; the edges of the central feathers 
marked with spots of rufous ; breast, abdomen, vent and sides of the body 
white, with numerous broad black cross bars ; under tail-coverts white, 
with a few indistinct bars. 
Young birds are dark brown ; the feathers of the upper plumage broadly 
tipped with rufous ; the head barred with rufous -white ; the lower plumage 
pale fulvous, with interrupted broad black bars ; tail much as in the adult, 
but the spots and marks rufous. 
Iris rich brown ; eyelids greenish plumbeous, the edges deep yellow ; 
gape yellow ; a small portion of the upper mandible under the nostrils 
and the greater portion of the lower mandible dull green ; remainder of 
the bill dark horny black ; legs yellow ; claws dark horn. 
