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to be met with in those districts where the land is much inclosed, as 
in part of the zillah of Coimbatore, where large tracts of country are 
inclosed by thick and in many cases lofty hedges of various species 
of Euphorbia, which afford shelter and abundance of food to this 
bird. It is also to be found in patches of low and thorny jungle, more 
especially if, as is the case with many of the low range of hills in 
the Carnatic, bushes of Euphorbia form a prominent portion of the 
jungle. Throughout the west coast, where jungle and forests abound, 
it is much more common, especially in those parts where bamboos 
occur, and where numberless creepers entwine themselves, and hang 
in luxuriant festoons from almost every tree. Such is the peculiarly 
appropriate haunt of this Cuckoo, which diligently searches the 
foliage for various species of mantis, grasshopper, and locust, whose 
green colours and odd forms, though assimilating so strongly to the 
plants on which they rest, are of but little avail against its keen 
and searching eye. It is usually found single, and when observed, 
but seldom takes to flight, making its way most adroitly through 
the most tangled brakes or hedges, and concealing itself on the 
opposite side." — (Jerdon.) 
" Very common in most parts of Ceylon, but abounding in the 
northern province. It is usually seen in pairs, flitting from tree to 
tree. It is wary and difficult to shoot, as it creeps through the 
thickest bushes and trees, and invariably flies out on the other side. 
It feeds in common with Eudynamys orientalis, on the fruit of the 
banian-tree . ' ' — (Lay ard.) 
1011. ZANCLOSTOMUS TRISTI8, Lesson Sp. 
Melias tristis. Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. (1831),^. 132. 
Zanclostomus tristis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIY. p. 200 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 76. G. B. Gray, Gen. 
ofB. 11. p. 461. Bonap., C. G. Av.p. 99. 
Phoenicophaus tristis, McClelland, P. Z. S. (1839),^. 166. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. ofJSTep.p. 118. 
Phoenicophaus longicaudatus, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. X. 
p. 923 (1841) ; XI. p. 1095 ; XII. pp. 177, 246. 
Phoenicophaus montanus, Hodgs., Gray^s Zool. Misc. 
(1844),;?. 85. 
a. and drawings. Assam. From McClelland's Collection. 
h. c. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
d. e. Kumaon. Presented by Capt. E. Strachey. 
