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a short distance alight on the very top of an equally high dead trunk. Its habit of keeping to the uppermost 
branches of these giants of the forest leads to its being seldom procured. Jerdon writes that it “repeats its 
call more frequently than other Cuckoos ; this/’ he remarks, “ is a double note of two syllables each — a fine, 
melodious, pleasing whistle, which the natives of Bengal attempt to immitate by their name Bokutako.” Mr. 
Oates says that its note is double and very melodious, and that it selects the topmost hough of a tree (generally 
a dead one) and remains calling there for a quarter of an hour or more. Its loquacious habit, like that of 
the Plaintive Cuckoo, is evidently confined to the breeding-season ; I never heard it, on the several occasions 
I have seen it in Ceylon, utter a note. 
Its stomach is highly villous, aud its principal food consists of caterpillars. 
Its eggs have not yet been identified ; but some suppose that it lays in the nests of Babblers ( Malacocerci ) . 
