ADDITIONAL CUCKOO NOTES. 279 



I trust my own utter collapse over-the Emerald Cuckoo's eggs will 

 prove an ample excuse to my friends, whose evidence re cuckoo's 

 effffs I have not deemed conclusive. 



I have taken very numerous eggs of Cacomantis merulinus this 

 year, in three cases catching the cuckoo by uooses on the nest. 

 Their eggs call for no special remark except that, strange to say, 

 they average smaller than those of passerinus. They lay principally 

 in the nest of Orthotomus and Cistecola. 



