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Sirkeer
Malkoha |
Taccocua
leschenaultii |
| CM |
Sirkeer
Malkoha |
Phaenicophaeus
leschenaultii |
| OB |
Sirkeer
Malkoha |
Phaenicophaeus
leschenaultii |
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28th
Feb, 2007 |
| Possible
regional races (polytypic)
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| -T. l. infuscata |
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| -T. l. sirkee |
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| -T. l. leschenaultii |
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| Taccocua leschenaultii sirkee |
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The Bengal Sirkeer is a permanent and fairly common resident, but
is also somewhat locally distributed. In well wooded tracts it will
be found unless there is a deal of grass and other jungle growing
about; but in dhak jungles, mingled with Fici and other trees, into
which it files and hides when disturbed, it is fairly abundant. It
is a great skulk, and the united efforts of half a dozen beaters will
sometimes almost fail to eject it from one of these trees. It feeds,
usually on the ground in jungle thickets, on ants, slugs, &c.
in this respect resembling C. intermedius1 very closely.
1. Greater Coucal - ED |
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