Note 103 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

See Jarrett, III. 121 and n. 5. The bird is either the common hawk-cuckoo of Jerdon (Hierococcyx varius) or his Coccystes melanoleucos—i.e., the pied-crested cuckoo, for both birds seem to have the native name of Papīhā. The Hierococcyx varius is the “brain-fever” bird of the Anglo-Indian, I.G., I. 250. The pied-crested cuckoo occurs in Kashmir, and so also apparently does a bird of the genus Hierococcyx. Lawrence, pp. 138, 139. ↑