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The Himalayan cuckoo (''Cuculus saturatus'') is a species of cuckoo in the genus ''Cuculus''. It breeds from the Himalayas eastward to southern China and Taiwan. It migrates to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter. It was formerly known as "Oriental cuckoo" and contained several subspecies found over most of Asia. In 2005, it was determined that this "species" consists of three distinct lineages: * Himalayan cuckoo, ''Cuculus (saturatus) saturatus'' * Oriental cuckoo proper, ''Cuculus (saturatus) optatus'' * Sunda cuckoo, ''Cuculus (saturatus) lepidus'' These are usually seen as distinct species nowadays. As the type specimen of the former "Oriental" cuckoo is a bird of the Himalayan population, the name ''saturatus'' applies to the Himalayan cuckoo if it is considered a species. ==References== ==External links== * http://www.soc.nii.ac.jp/osj/japanese/katsudo/Journal_E/ornsci1_1pdfs/os010206.pdf 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Himalayan cuckoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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