. Birds. Birds. HIEROCOCOXX. 213 and graceful. Its food, partly at all events, consists of caterpillars. According to Mr. Hodgson's notes, the female lays her eggs in the nests of Trodhaloptervm, nigrimentum and looops nepalensis amongst other birds; but on the Nilgiris this bird is believed to have been observed by both Miss Oockburn and Mr. E. H. Morgan to build its own neat, of sticks, without lining, and to lay 3 or 4 nearly white slightly speckled eggs, measuring 1-39 by 1"05. 1109. Hierococcyx varius. The Common Hawh-Cuckoo. Cuculus variua, VaM, Skriv. Nat. â Sdsk. iv, p. 61 (1797);
. Birds. Birds. HIEROCOCOXX. 213 and graceful. Its food, partly at all events, consists of caterpillars. According to Mr. Hodgson's notes, the female lays her eggs in the nests of Trodhaloptervm, nigrimentum and looops nepalensis amongst other birds; but on the Nilgiris this bird is believed to have been observed by both Miss Oockburn and Mr. E. H. Morgan to build its own neat, of sticks, without lining, and to lay 3 or 4 nearly white slightly speckled eggs, measuring 1-39 by 1"05. 1109. Hierococcyx varius. The Common Hawh-Cuckoo. Cuculus variua, VaM, Skriv. Nat. â Sdsk. iv, p. 61 (1797); Blyth, Cat. p. 70; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, p. 452. Cuculus lathami, Oray in Sardwiche'a III. Ina. Zool. ii, pi. 34, fig. 2. Hierococcyx varius, Horsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 700; Jerdon, B. 1. i, p. 329; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 361; Adam, S. F. i, p. 373 ; Bvtler, 8. F. iii, p. 460: BourdUhn, S. F. iv, p. 392; Fairhank, S. F. v, p. 397; Vidal, S. F. vii, p. 55; BaU, ibid. p. 207; Cripps, ibid. p. 264; Hwme, Cat. no. 205; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 255; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 240; Beid, S. F. x, p. 27; Davison, S. F. x, p. 359; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 126; Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 182; Oates in Bvme's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 383 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 234. Hierococcyx nisoidea, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 362; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 371. Kupak or TTpdk, Pupiya, H.; Choh-gallo, Beng.; Bim-pi-yitl, Lepcha; Kutti-pitta, Tel.; Zakkhat, Deccan ; Irolan, Mai. This is the " Brain- fever bird'' of Fig, 61.âHead of H. varius, {. Coloration. Upper plumage ash-grey; quills browner, their inner webs broadly barred with white, some white on outer upper tail- coverts ; tail grey, tipped with rufescent and usually with 4 bars (occasionally 5) beyond the coverts, the terminal bar broadest, the others each with a pale or rufescent posterior border, and the penultimate much nearer to the last thau to the antepenultimate; occasionally the penultimate band is faint or wan
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