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CATALOGUE. 
tree ; occasionally, however, on caterpillars and other soft insects. 
Irides bright-yellow ; bill brown, yellowish at the base ; gape, eyelids, 
and feet deep bright yellow." — (Jerdon.) 
Genus Cuculus, Linn. S. N. (1735). 
1022. CUCULUS CAN0RU8, Linnwus. 
Cuculus canorus, Unn. S. iV^. I. p. 168. (Fl. mi. 811. 
Le Vaill, Ois. d'Afr. t. 202, 203.) Lath,, Hist. ofB. 
111. p. 257. Syhes, P. Z. S. (1832),^. 98. Gould, 
B. of Eur. t. 240. Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. XI. 
p. 901 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 71. Hodgson, 
Cat. B. ofNep. p. 119. G. B. Gray, Gen. ofB. II. 
p. 463. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 102. Layard, Ann. 
JSr. H. n. s. XIII. p. 452. 
Cuculus borealis, Ballas. 
Cuculus hepaticus, Sparrman, Mus. Carls, t. 55 (1788). 
The Common Cuckoo. 
P'HTJ-p'nr, Deyra Doon, Blyth. 
a.h. Mesopotamia. Presented by Commander Jones. 
c. d. e. S ? . N. W. India. From Griffith's Collection. 
f. g. , $ , and young. Kumaon. Presented by Captain 
Strachey. 
h. i. ^ and young. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodg- 
son, Esq. 
j. h. ^ ^ . Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
" In India this Cuckoo is tolerably common on the Himalayas, and 
Lieut. Tickell remarks that it is not rare in the jungles of Borabhiim 
and Dholbhiim ; but Mr. Jerdon states that ' it is seldom met with 
southward of north lat. 20°. Its well-known note was often heard in 
Goomsoor.' Colonel Sykes mentions it as found, though rarely, in 
the Bombay Deccan ; and Major Franklin designates it ' the common 
Cuckoo of India : ' but I have never yet [1842] heard its note in the 
vicinity of Calcutta, though I possessed a living specimen for some 
months which was taken in the neighbourhood." — (Blyth.) 
In 1846, Mr. Blyth further remarks : " I kept for about a year a 
pair of C. canorus (indicus), and for a long while in the same cage : 
upon separating them, the male soon began to utter his cry, cuchoo, 
generally of a morning and evening, ten or twenty times successively. 
