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(6). Mr. Hodgson observed the young of tins species being fed by other birds, and 
states that it is parasitic in its breeding-habits (6). 
Distribution. India, S. E. Siberia, and China, south to Malacca (7,8,11); Philippines — 
Luzon (fide Gronld b 1, 7), Calainianes (Bourns & Worcester 10), Palawan (Platen 
c 2), Negros (Whitehead 13); Labuan (Treacher c 2); Java (Diard in Schh, Mus. 
P.-B. Cucuh 1864, 15); Minahassa, Celebes (P. & E. Sarasin 12). 
A single immature specimen of this Cuckoo, described above, was obtained 
in North Celebes by the cousins Sarasin in September, 1894. It is probably 
only a rare winter visitor to the island from China or S. E. Siberia, where 
David (a and Godlewski (8) remark upon its presence in summer. Few 
specimens have as yet been obtained in other parts of the Archipelago. 
It is distinguishable from H. crassirostris by its having the wing below 
banded (except towards the tip), as well as more pointed and longer, the bill 
smaller, the 3 exposed bands on the middle tail-feathers all complete ; the banded 
wing also serves to distinguish it from H. fugacc, as well as its larger size.- 
4 60. HIEROCOCCYX FUGAX (Horsf.). 
Horsfield’s Hawk-cuckoo. 
a. Cuculus fugax (1) Horsf., Tr. L. S. 1821, XHI, 178 (Java). 
h. Cuculus lathami (I) J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. 1834, pi. 34, fig. 2. 
Hierococcyx fugax (1) Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 104; (2) Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heine 1862, IV, 
28 (Hiracococcyx); (5) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 65 (Hieracococcyx) ; (4) id., 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XIV, 1879, 185; (5) Hume & Davison, Str. E. VI, 1878, 
157; (6) Kelham, Ibis 1881,391; (7) WrdL Bamsay, ib. 1884, 333; (8) A. Muller, 
J. f. 0. 1885, 157; (9) Blittik, Notes Leyd. Mus. 1887, 28; (10) Sharpe, P. Z. S. 
1887, 442; (11) id.. Ibis 1890, 10; (IP^^) Everett, J. Str. B. E. A. S. 1889, 171; 
(12) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 236; (13) Styan, Ibis 1891, 325, 484; (14) 
Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. 1891, XXXH, 45; (15) Baldamus, Leben europ. Kuck. 
1892, 133; (16) Hagen, T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890 (2) VH, 136; (17) Bourns 
& Worces., B. Menage Exped. 1894, 35. 
c. Cuculus hyperythrus (1) Gld., P. Z. S. 1856, 96; (II) id., B. Asia 1856, VI, 431 (Shanghai); 
(2) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 64. 
d. Hierococcyx pectoralis (1) Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 1862, IV, 27 (Philippines); (2) 
Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 161; (3) id., P. Z. S. 1878, 946; (4) Steere, List Coll. 
B. Philip. Is. 1890, 12. 
e. Hierococcyx sparveriodes (I) Schrenck (nec Vig.), Eeis. Amurlande, Vog. 1859, 257, pi. 10. 
f. Hierococcyx hyperythrus (1) C. & H, Mus. Hein. 1862, IV, 30; (2) Wrdlw. Eamsay, 
Ibis 1886, 157; (3) Seebohm,. B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 171. 
g. Cuculus asturinus (1) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 101; (2) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 
1883, 153. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould c 11; J. E. Gray hi; Schrenck el; Brliggemann g 1; 
Blasius g 2; W. Eamsay /*2;i Shelley 12. 
Female, not quite fully adult. Above slaty grey, some feathers round neck white, the longest 
scapulars white barred with ashy; primaries slaty black, tipped with a narrow rim 
of white; some of the secondaries blacldsh brown, barred with rufous; upper tail- 
coverts blackish brown, tipped with rufous brown; tail-feathers rufous brown 
Meyer & Wigleswortli, Birds of Celebes (Oct. 21st, 1897). 
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