Chinese name: Juan Siu Chinese Title: Juan Passeriformes Chinese Family Name: raven cuckoo Division Chinese Generic name: Juan is a crow Synonym: cuculus toulou pls muller, 1776, Chinese common name: Xiaomao Chicken Little Crow pheasant pheasant Cameroon cushions small wasp Latin Title: cuculiformes Latin Family Name: centropodidae Latin genus name: centropus Latin species name: bengalensis Species name and age of people: (pls müller, 1776) English common name: lesser coucal
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Form
Medium-sized birds, shaped like sinensis, but slightly smaller body, commonly known as the "hairs chicken." Body length of 30-40 cm, weight 85-167 grams. Head, neck, upper back and lower body in black, dark blue with black feathers and bright luster to dry lines. Lower back and tail coverts a light black, with blue luster. Tail is black with green metallic sheen and narrow white tip. As chestnut shoulders and Liang Chi, the secondary flight feathers, wings over side and inside Anhe, revealing light chestnut feathers dry. Under wing coverts of the reddish-brown or maroon in color, unlike sinensis is black, is one of the main differences between them, especially in the more obvious when flying. Iris dark red; mouth black; pin black lead.
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Distribution
Juan Siu abroad in India, Burma, Indochina, the Philippines and Indonesia and other places in the country located in Anhui, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hainan, Fujian, Taiwan, Henan and other places.
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Habits
Abalone habitat at the foot of hilly and open plains of the shrub, grass, orchards and secondary forests. Often alone or in pairs events. Of witty and subtle, a little alarmed, and immediately ran out into the thick bushes or grass Mao. Different sound sharp and crisp, and sometimes very rapid. Mainly grasshoppers, mole crickets, gold shells and stink bugs, termites, praying mantis, Li Si and other insects and other small animals for food, also eat small fruits and seeds. Siu cuckoo for the resident birds, their habitat and ecological habits and sinensis are all very similar to chicken wine can do hair. Call: several more deep hollow hoop sound, speed up, pitch down, such as the inverted bottle of water; more sinensis calls faster. The second calls for the three hup sound into a series of logokok, logokok, logokok sound.
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Reproduction
Reproduction of 3 to 8 months. Nest in thick bushes, dwarf bamboo and other plant leaves. Nest mainly in the iris, wild grass and other hay composition, spherical or elliptical shape. Usually _set_ twig nest in shrubs or small trees, the height from the ground about 1 meter. 3 to 5 eggs per litter, eggs oval, white without spots.
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Endangerment
State protection level: II Age of entry into force: 1989 China Red Data Book of Endangered Animals level: VU Age of entry into force: 1996
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Endangered factors
Pharmaceutical ingredients, as is hunting: people compete to kill the local mountain chicken wine as raw material for hair, resulting in sharp drop in wild populations of the species.