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of the feathers, it is seen that here, where they are not exposed, they are 
white and black, and entirely white at the extreme base. 
-f 59. HIEROCOCCYX SPARVERIOIDES (Vig.). 
Large Hawk-cuckoo. 
a. Cuculus sparverioides (1) Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, 173; (II) G-ould, Cent. Himal. B. 1832, 
pi. 53; (3) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 63. 
Hierococcyx sparverioides (1) Bp., Consp. Av. 1850, I, 104; (2) Hume, Str. F. HI, 1875, 
80; (3) Hume&Davis., Str. F. VI, 1878, 157; (^4; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 1883, H, 
108; (5) A. Miill., J. f. 0. 1885, 157; (6) Oates, ed. Hume’s Nests & Eggs Ind. 
B. 1890, H, 384; (7) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 232; (8) Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. 
Orient. II, 1893, 694; (9) Eickett, Ibis 1894, 222; (10) Bourns & Worces., B. 
Menage Exped. 1894, 35; (11) Blank, Faun. Br. Ind. B. H I, 1895, 211 ; (12) M. &Wg., 
Ahh. Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 1, pp. 1, 4; (13) Orant, Ibis 1896, 559. 
b. Cuculus strenuus (1) Old., P. Z. S. 1856, 96; (II) id., B. Asia VI, pi. 42 (1862). 
c. Hierococcyx strenuus (1) Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 1862, IV, 28; (2) Everett, J. Str. 
Br. K A. S. 1889, 171. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Shelley 7. 
Figures and descriptions. Oould a II, h JJ; David & Oustalet a 5; Oates 4\ Shelley 7; 
Taczanowski 8; Blanford 11\ etc. 
Young. Above blackish brown, the feathers edged and obscurely barred with tawny-olive, 
more bufl-brown, streaked with blackish brown on bind neck; bead above very dark 
grey, ear -coverts rather lighter, lores whitish; tail grey- brown with three exposed 
blackish bands and two under the upper tail-coverts, tip brownish white; under parts 
white, washed with huff, becoming buff -brown on flanks, the whole broadly striped 
with blackish brown, taking a more sagittate form on the flanks ; chin blackish; 
remiges below dusky, barred with light clay-huff: “feet yellow; eyelids and iris 
yellow; hill black, below greenish”. — Wing 234 mm; tail c. 200; tarsus 25; bill fr. 
nostr. 16.5. (Q, Gunong Masarang, N. Celebes, 16. IX. 94: P. &F. Sarasin.) 
Adult. “Has the lores Avhitish; crown, nape and sides of head and neck ashy, varying from 
rather pale to blackish, passing into the colour of the hack which with the remainder 
of the upper parts is rich brown with a purphsh gloss; quills barred with white on 
the inner webs; tail above brown, pale brownish grey below, tipped with white or 
rufous white, and crossed outside the coverts generally by 3, sometimes by 4, black 
or dark brown hands, the last the broadest, and the last but one the narrowest and 
separated from the last by a narrow space; beneath the chin is dark ashy, with a 
white moustachial stripe on each side ; throat white, more or less streaked with ashy 
and rufous and passing into the more rufous upper breast, which also has ashy shaft- 
stripes; lower breast, flanks and abdomen white, more or less suffused with rufous 
and transversely banded with brown; vent, lower tail-coverts and edge of wing white” 
(Blanford 11). 
Measurements. Wing 216 — 254 mm; tail 210 — 235; tarsus 26.8; bill from gape 35.6 (Blan- 
ford ii). 
Eggs and breeding habits. According to observations by Miss Cockburn in the Nilghiris (6) 
this Cuckoo builds its own nest of twigs like a Crow’s and hatches its eggs. These 
are three in number, white, with a few touches (sometimes wanting) of light brown. 
A similar observation by Mr. E. H. Morgan, the nest containing 4 eggs, is recorded 
