. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . 1109. Hierococcyx varius. The Common Eawk-Cuchoo. Cuculus varius, Vahl, Skriv. Nat. Selsk. iv, p. 61 (1797); Blyth, Cat. p. 70: Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xni, p. 452. _ruculus lathami, Grai/ in HardwlcJc&s III. Ind. Zool. n, pi. ^^^S- i-Hierococcvx varius, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 700; Jerdo7i B. 1. hV S2d : Bli/th, Ibis, 1866, p. 361; Adam, S. F. i, p. 373 ; Butler,S F. iii, p. 460: Bourdillon, S. F. iv, p. 392 ; Fairbank, S. Fy,p. 397; Vidal, S. F. vii, p. 55; Ball, ibid. p. 207; Cripps, ibid.^.2h^\Hume, Cat. no. 205; Scully, S. F. viii
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . 1109. Hierococcyx varius. The Common Eawk-Cuchoo. Cuculus varius, Vahl, Skriv. Nat. Selsk. iv, p. 61 (1797); Blyth, Cat. p. 70: Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xni, p. 452. _ruculus lathami, Grai/ in HardwlcJc&s III. Ind. Zool. n, pi. ^^^S- i-Hierococcvx varius, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 700; Jerdo7i B. 1. hV S2d : Bli/th, Ibis, 1866, p. 361; Adam, S. F. i, p. 373 ; Butler,S F. iii, p. 460: Bourdillon, S. F. iv, p. 392 ; Fairbank, S. Fy,p. 397; Vidal, S. F. vii, p. 55; Ball, ibid. p. 207; Cripps, ibid.^.2h^\Hume, Cat. no. 205; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 255; Legye Birds 210; Reid, S. F. x, p. 27; Davison, S. F. x, p. 3o9 ; Barnes, BirdsBom V 126; Davidsoji, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. I82;0atesin Hunies N. .^- F. 2nd ed. ii, p. 383 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, Hierococcyx nisoides, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 362; Hume, S. F. vii,p. or Upak, Pupiya,; Chok-gcdlo,^Bn^; Bim-pi-ynl, Lepcha;Kutti-pitta, Tel. ; Zakkhat, Decean ; Iro^an, Mai. This is the Bram-fever bird of Fig. 61.—Head of H. varius, \. Coloration. Upper plumage ash-grey; quills browner, their innerwebs broadly barred with white, some white on outer upper tail-coverts ; tail grey, tipped with rufescent and usually with 4 bars(occasionally 5) bevond the coverts, the terminal bar broadest, theothers each with a pale or rufescent posterior border, and thepenultimate much nearer to the last than to the antepenultimate;occasionally the penultimate band is faint or wanting; sides othead ashvjores and cheeks whitish ; chin and throat white, moreor less tinged with ashy ; fore-neck and breast rufous mixed withpale ashy, losver breast with bars; abdomen white anteriorlytinged rufous and with transverse grey bars, posteriorly like theunder tail-coverts pure white; edge of wing the same. The young above darlc brown with rufous cross-bars ; lower parts 214 cuculidjE. white, tinged with rufous in places and spotted with brown excepton the lower
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