.762 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVUr. 
No. 
Scientific name. 
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English name. 
Remarks. 
1067 
Upupa indica 
Indian Hoopoe 
Common. Nests in holes of 
building trees. February, 
March. 
1073 
Cypselus affinis 
Indian Swift 
Local. Builds in buildings, the 
jail a favorite place. 
1086 
Macropteryx coro- 
nal a. 
Crested Swift 
Two nests taken in the northern 
forests; the nest, a small 
bracket, is attached to a 
horizontal branch high up on 
a tall tree, the egg, a single 
one, is laid in this. The hen 
bird sits upright on it, as if 
she were perched on the 
bough, not l 3 dng as an ordinary 
bird does; ordinarily you 
would not suspect that the 
bird was sitting on a nest at 
all. June. 
1093 
Caprimulgus mac- 
runis. 
Horsfield’s Nightjar. 
.Common in the forests, la 3 ’s on 
dead leaves, no attempt at 
nest. May, June. 
1109 
Hierococcyx varius. 
Crested Hawk-Cuc- 
koo. 
Egg taken in nest of Argya 
caudata with two of the 
latter birds. JUI 3 ’. 
lli 8 
Coccystes jacobinus. 
Pied Crested Cnckoo 
Common in the rains. Lays in 
in nest of C. canorus. 
1120 
Eiidynamis h o n o- 
rata. 
Koel 
Lays in crows’ nests, taken 4 
eggs from one nest. July. 
1128 
Rh 0 p 0 d 3 d.es tiistis . 
Large Green- billed 
Malkoha. 
Northern forests. Large glo- 
bular nest in thick creepers. 
June. 
1129 
Taccocua leschen- 
aulti. 
Sirkeer Cuckoo . . 
Thick and thorn\- creepers 
chmbing up trees. April 
to July. 
1130 
Centropus sinensis . . 
Coucal or Crow 
Pheasant. 
Large domed structure in heavy 
creepers generall 3 ', but I once 
found one in a Babul tree 
without a leaf. July to Sep- 
tember. 
