It's about 38 cm long. Head and neck are grey. Upper body and wings gray-brown, black-brown tail, with five dark brown horizontal spot, tail end fold. The lower body, throat and chest are longitudinally striated and the abdomen is variegated. Hidden among the leaves of the trees, it can be heard day and night. Food to insects and their larvae-based, reproductive period. 4 ~ 7 months, parasitic magpie and other birds in the nest, produced 1 ~ 2 eggs, eggs for olive gray, densely brown fine spot. Typical Cuckoo in the canopy. It is a common species in this area and its calls are very frequent.