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(Sound like "zhui". From *Bencao Shiyi* [Supplement to Materia Medica].)

**Names**: Huangbohou (Yellow-brown Hou) (from *Bencao Shiyi*).

**Collected Explanations**: Zang Qi said: Huangbohou resembles a turtledove but has greenish-brown feathers, and its sound is like a child blowing a bamboo pipe.

Li Shizhen said: There are white turtledoves and green turtledoves. In summer, a type of bran-colored turtledove appears, slightly reddish in color, small in size, and living in flocks. The "Huangbohou transforming into Banwei in autumn" mentioned by Zhang Yuxi likely refers to this bird. It likes to eat mulberries and the seedlings of *Pinellia ternata* (Banxia). In the past, someone who ate too much of this bird's meat suffered from Houbi (throat obstruction/swelling), which was cured by a doctor using fresh ginger to resolve the toxicity.

**Odor and Flavor**: Sweet, neutral, non-toxic.

**Therapeutic Actions**: Treats malignant sores (Note: Original text contains "ant", likely a textual error or specific context; literal translation: treats ant malignant sores). Marinated with five flavors and roasted for consumption, it is extremely delicious (Zang Qi).

It calms the five viscera, supplements qi and deficiency, expels pus and invigorates blood, and treats all types of carbuncles, furuncles, and abscesses (from *Jiayou Bencao*).

(from *Bencao Shiyi*)

**Names**: Bugu (Cuckoo) (from *Liezi*), Shijiu (Sound like "jiaju"), Huogu (from *Erya Zhu*), Guogong.

Zang Qi said: Bugu is the Shijiu. In the Jiangdong region, it is called Huogu, also known as Guogong. People in the north call it Bogu.

Li Shizhen said: Bugu has many names, all derived from the similarity of its call. For example, colloquial terms like "A Gong A Po," "Cut Wheat Plant Rice," and "Take Off Old Pants" are used because its calling time serves as an agricultural calendar marker. Some say that Shijiu is the Shijiu mentioned in *Liji Yue Ling*, where "Shi" is a corruption of "Ming" (to cry/call), which is also acceptable. *Qin Jing* (Classic of Birds) and *Fangyan* state that Shijiu is the Daisheng (Hoopoe); Guo Pu claimed otherwise, which is also correct.

**Collected Explanations**: Zang Qi said: Bugu resembles a kite with a long tail; males and females fly and call together, brushing their wings against each other.

Li Shizhen said: According to *Maoshi Yishu*: Mingjiu is as large as a turtledove and yellowish; they call out to each other but do not gather. They cannot build nests and often inhabit tree hollows or empty magpie nests. When feeding young, they go down from above in the morning and come up from below in the evening. They begin calling after the Grain Rain solar term in February and stop after the Summer Solstice. Zhang Hua's *Qin Jing Zhu* states: In mid-spring, eagles transform into doves; in mid-autumn, doves transform back into eagles. Therefore, the eyes of the dove resemble those of the eagle. *Liezi* says: Kites become Shijiu, Shijiu become Bugu, and Bugu eventually revert to kites, which is correct. *Qin Jing* also states: Doves give birth to three offspring. One becomes an Osprey.

**Odor and Flavor**: Sweet, warm, non-toxic.

**Therapeutic Actions**: Calms the spirit and stabilizes willpower, reducing the need for sleep (Wang Ying).

**Tibiotarsus Bone**

**Therapeutic Actions**: Can make husband and wife love each other. Collect the tibiotarsus bones on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, one for each person; men take the left, women take the right. It is said that if placed in water, they will naturally follow each other (Zang Qi).