. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . blackish brown, the latter glossed with green ; on theforehead the rufous is partly replaced by white; wing-feathersdark brown, the outer webs narrowly, the inner broadly indentedwith rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white, marginsindented with rufous, the rufous edges increasing on the outerfeathers till the outermost are rufous with imperfect black barsand a subterminal brown band ; lower plumage throughout buffywhite, with numerous narrow dark brown cross-bars ; sides of headand neck the same, the ear-coverts rufous an
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . blackish brown, the latter glossed with green ; on theforehead the rufous is partly replaced by white; wing-feathersdark brown, the outer webs narrowly, the inner broadly indentedwith rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white, marginsindented with rufous, the rufous edges increasing on the outerfeathers till the outermost are rufous with imperfect black barsand a subterminal brown band ; lower plumage throughout buffywhite, with numerous narrow dark brown cross-bars ; sides of headand neck the same, the ear-coverts rufous and brown. In veryold birds the rufous on the upper parts is reduced and the coloiirbecomes darker. The young differ in no important particular fromadults. Upper mandible and tip of lower black, rest of lower greenishyellow; iris brown of different shades ; legs and feet brownish slatyor greenish. Length about 95 ; tail 4*75 to 52 ; wing 4-6 to 5 ; tarsus •? ;bill from gape Il. Malay specimens {P. pravatus) are smaller, thewing measuring 4 to 4-6 ■■myJ Fig. 63.—Head of P. sonnerati, \. Distribution. A resident species, common in Ceylon and in theforests near the Malabar coast, rare in the Bombay Konkan, andvery rare elsewhere in the Indian Peninsula and in the WesternHimalayas, though recorded from Mussooree, Kumaun, Manbhoom,and Eaipur; less rare in the Eastern Himalayas, but still far fromcommon, and ranging throughout Burma and the Malay Peninsulato Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. Habits, ^-c. A shy bird with, according to Legge, a curious far-sounding whistle, syllabized as ly/ii, iv^hip-ivhiiuhij), and a peculiarcall-note, commencing in a low key, then suddenly changing to ahigher, and then dying away. This Cuckoo feeds chiefly on cater-pillars. Eggs supposed to belong to it have been found in the nestof Otocompsa fuscicaudata, measuring -82 by •62. Genus CHRYSOCOCCYX, Boie, 1827. This is a genus of small Cuckoos distinguished by the sexesdiffering in plumage,
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