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v i vi , ,,11 Tt freauents -roves of trees, compounds, wooded knolls m paddy-fields, and jungle 
peculiar scale-like call. It trej 0 , lki bird loving concealment in thick trees and tangled 
near water or bordering open ground It is a skulking bnd iov 0 ^ ^ creeperg . It moves 
bushes, and delighting in the shady fo lage o ices w n slanting limbs and springing from branch 
actively about when flushed and driven into . tree, hopping \ t £ fc male which 
to branch till it gain, the other side, and then escapes to a father P^eof on ai™ ^ incM!e> 
utters the peculiar note ku-U, ku-il, or k oyc logo, which mounts each tim „1 ^ ^ md hc has 
vigour until it fairly rings through ““ u ^ om the fr place, of concealment and flying 
finished his vociferation one oi w , _ males seem usually to be in the minority, or else 
s™’: z ^ -»■ b ° ■“ in the ° f * 
^ is almost exclusively a fruit-eating specie, and feeds !t 
berries ; from the stomach of a male I once to °^. two en ^V^ ig tree „ r0 ws. Blyth states that it ejects the 
fruit, but in Ceylon does not much a ect T^mouth - he syllabizes another note uttered by the male as 
5S, hut7h«vfno“eltM:. Both sexes are much more noisy in May and dune than at other times, 
as this is the breeding-season m Ceylon. , • i;1 tbat their poets compare it to the 
^ery^^Koeleanhehfiard 
a mile away ! 
at- rr r „ To the Western Province this parasitic Cuckoo breeds in May and June, laying nearly 
Nidification. In the Western v ^ ^ that of the smaller citizen species, as m 
always in the nest of Corvut lemillantl (tl . t . le t0 wl i c h the Koel resorts to rear its 
India, for the simple reason that the latter does not “ b “ nesti ng of this bird, a number of 
young. 1 an, indebted Slri more especially in the vicinity of Kasbavva. The 
tZgZ the TariicuW. of four nests found in the months of May and dune, 1875 
Ko^“y had been laid by “Sbr^ — 
spotted rather thickly with ^ b * 0 93 ™ h “ d 
itby 0 ‘ 0 ’inl ‘‘^“"“Tght brown colour, covered with small reddish-hrowu and purple 
spots': dimensions, 1’35 by IT inch and 1*84 by PO inch. 
(2) Eggs : 5 Crow’s ; 3 Ivoel’s. , d fsnaringlv at the small end) with two shades of 
Ground-colour olivaceous green, 3 o eie bb • b er eV • the markings almost confluent at the 
olive-brown over numerous smaller spotting* of indistinct bluish grey , mar g 
obtuse end. 
(3) Eggs : 2 Crow’s ; 4 Koel’s vanish grey marked all over, but mostly at the large 
Two distinct types. Ground-colour of two o R -rcy • at the obtuse end the spots are large, 
end, with reddish brown, over numerous smaller spots of bl ™ S “ * r3 , by r0 and 1*88 by l’O. The 
but all over the rest of the surface in the form of small speck .J ’ spo ts, mostly towards the obtuse 
other two were of a greenish ground-colour, speckled w h purplish^d ^ ^ ^ 
end where the markings become confluent : dimensions, 13 y 
’ Sfoi davk olivc-gvccn, spotted with dark veddish brown, eouflneu, sound the 
obtuse* eiid 1 ^ Dimension) MB by W inch and Hi by 0-95 inch. 
S'jXESi Chow lay? Z ^.- Si my lamented friend Me. Anderson, re mark, 
7 ‘ ^ ““ tr “ * b? “ ,>b “” a “ 
naturalist on the nesting of the Koel. 
