CATALOGUE. 
709 
/ ? . Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
g. h. ^ ^. Drawings. From F. (Buch.) Hamilton's 
Collection. 
i. ? . Drawing. Ceylon. From M. Joinville's Collection. 
/ k. I m. n. Adult and young. Malacca, Pinang. 
Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
p. q. S ? • Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
" This bird appears perfectly identical, from India, China, and the 
Malay countries." — (Blyth.) 
" This well-known bird is found in all parts of the peninsula of 
India, where there is a sufficiency of trees. It is common in the 
Carnatic in groves, gardens, and avenues, and also in the west coast, 
but rare in the table-land. It feeds entirely on fruit, and is remark- 
ably fond of the fig of the banian-tree. The female lays its eggs in 
the nest of the common Indian Crow {Corvus splendens)^ from which 
it dislodges the crow's eggs. It is said always to choose this crow's 
nest." — (Jerdon.) 
" A well-known and noisy bird, with singularly loud notes, not at 
all like those of a Cuckoo. These birds are frugivorous. In the 
stomachs of many the fruits of the Bergera Koenigi and Uvaria 
iindulata only were found. The tongue is exactly like that of the 
Cuculus canorus. Irides rich lake." — (Col. Sykes.) 
" The Coel is very commonly kept caged by the native inhabitants 
of Calcutta, becoming quite fearless and familiar, and frequently 
uttering its loud cry (Jcoyo, Icoyo, TcoyOy with variations), as well as 
another note, which truly corresponds to the sound cuckoo emitted 
by the bird of Europe, and which sounds like Jio-wJiee-yo, delivered at 
intervals, as the C. canorus utters its well-known cry, often for a long 
while together, and not unfrequently in moonlight nights. It inva- 
riably deposits its eggs in the nests of the Corvus cuhninatus and 
C. splendens. 
The Coel, though a bird of the skulking unobtrusive habits of the 
CuculincB generally, and having the same quiet gliding movements 
from bough to bough, is not particularly shy, allowing of a near 
approach, while itself lies still to avoid observation, especially when 
feeding, at which time they may be shot as fast as a gim can be 
loaded, by watching for them under a tree, to which they resort for 
its fruit, as a spreading banyan in its season ; and they are parti- 
cularly attached to the densely-foliaged Bokul (Bengal) or Mouhari 
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