Editing Jacobin cuckoo (section)

==In culture==
This species is widely mentioned in ancient Indian poetry as the ''chātaka''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerdon, TC|year=1862 |title=The Birds of India.|publisher=Military Orphans Press, Calcutta.|volume=1|page=[https://archive.org/details/birdsofindiabein01jerd/page/341 341]|url=https://archive.org/details/birdsofindiabein01jerd}}</ref> According to Indian mythology it has a beak atop its head and it thirsts for the rains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c059.htm |title=The Mahabharata, Book 12|access-date=2009-06-24}}</ref> The poet [[Kalidasa]] used it in his "[[Meghadoota]]" as a metaphor for deep yearning and this tradition continues in literary works.<ref>{{cite book|author=Keay, F E|title=A history of Hindi literature|year=1920|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofhindili00keayrich/page/102 102]–103|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofhindili00keayrich}}</ref> [[Satya Churn Law]], however noted that in Bengal, the bird associated with the "chataka" of Sanskrit was the [[common iora]] unlike the Jacobin cuckoo suggested by European orientalists. He further noted that a captive iora that he kept drank water only from dew and spray picked up from plant leaves suggesting that it may have been the basis for the idea that the "chatak" only drank raindrops.<ref>{{cite book|author=Law, Satya Churn|year=1923|title=Pet birds of Bengal (volume 1)|pages=[https://archive.org/details/petbirdsofbengal00laws/page/114 114]–115, 123|publisher=Thacker, Spink & Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/petbirdsofbengal00laws}}</ref> To compound the issues with matching vernacular names, it has been pointed out that in Bengal ''chātak'' also refers to skylarks (which are also crested).<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society|volume=14|issue=2|year=1924|title=Studies in Bird-Myths. No. III.—On two Aetiological Myths about the Sky-Lark| pages=106–110|author=Mitra, Sarat Chandra}}</ref>
[[File:Pied-Cuckoo.jpg|thumb|Pied cuckoo in Pune, Maharashtra]]
It is also mentioned in the poem 'Are ghaas ki roti' where it is said that if Maharana Pratap was to surrender to Akbar, a dystopian future will ensue where the chātak will drink water from the ground.