744 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY Vol. XXV. 



Details as follows : — 

 15-5-17 1-22" X -83" (with 1. C. coromandus, -97" x -85", and 



(two G. pectoraiis : all slightly set. 

 13-5-17 1-18" X -84" (with 1. C. coromandus, -97" x -85", and 



(3 G. moniliger : set. 

 14-5-17 1-24" X -84" (with one C. coromandus, Ml" x -86", and 



(3 G. moniliger : slightly set. 

 23-5-17 1-16" x -80" (with 1. C. coromandus 1-02" x .81", and 



(2 G. moniliger : fresh. 

 All the eggs were blue, 4 a little, and one considerably lighter than eggs 

 of G. moniliger : except the egg found on 28-5-17 which was very long and 

 thin, all were of the usual shape. All are glossy. There are no eggs with 

 the very light blue colouring which two of my Chin Hills eggs have : The 

 details of 7 eggs found in the Chin Hills are as follows : — 



1-29" X -83" : at 4,500.' 24-4-14 ex MaClelland's Scimitar Babber Poma- 



torhinus macclellandi (c/3) : very 

 light blue, fresh. 

 1-27" X -85" : at 4,500' 28-4-14 ex Ashy Laughing-Thrush, lanthocincla 



cineracea (c/2) : slightly set : 

 colour, rather light. • 

 1-26" X -84" : at 4,500' 20-4-14 ex Poinatorhinus macclellandi {cl2) : hard 



set : coloar, normal. 

 1-26'' X -82" : at 5,000' 24-4-15 ex P. macclellandi (c/1) : fresh : colour, 



very light. 

 1-28" X "88" : at 4,500' 3-5-15 ex I. cineracea (c/2; : hard set: colour, 



rather light. 

 1-14" X -83" : at 5-500' 6-5-15 ex 7. cz«emce« (c/2): fresh: normal 



colour. 

 1-20" X -81" : at 4,000' 10-5-15 ex I. cineracea (c/2) : fresh : colour 



normal but very little gloss. Is 

 rather like C. coromandus in tex- 

 ture. 

 The average of 12 eggs, is therefore, a little over 1*23'' x "83" ; the length 

 varying from 1'14" to 1-31", and the breadth from -79'' to -88". Mr. Hopwood 

 found a nest containing 1. K. sjiarverioides, 2. C. coromandus and 3. G. 

 moniliger eggs, all fresh, in Maymyo this year, about May 15th. 

 3. Red-winged Crested-cuckoo, Coccystes coromandus. 

 Four nests were found containing these eggs (apart from those 

 mentioned above) in nests also containing H. sparverioides eggs as well : 

 1-09" X "85" on 15-4-17 ex G. monilicjer. c/2 : fresh. 

 1-11" X -90" 1 



1-05' X -88" \ on 14-5-17 ex H. pectoralis, c/3, slightly set. 

 1-13" X -83' ) 

 1-07" X -91^" J 



1-09" X -8."/' I on 29-5-17 ex G.monil.i(/oi: c/3: sliijhtlv set. 

 1-08" X -87" \ 



1-03" X -88" I oo - IT ^ -r 



1-07" y S-" I ^" 22-0-17 ex G momhger, c,2 : set. 



Only one nest contained one Cuckoo's egg only. That was the first one 

 found and was absolutely fresh. More might have been laid had J left the 

 nest for a day or two, as I always did subsequently. 



The average size of my 17 Maymyo eggs is 1*06" x '86", and they vary 

 in length between 1-13" and '97", and in breadth between -92 and -81" 



They run slightly smaller than Mr. Osmaston's eggs, in length, and very 

 considerably so in breadth. His 10 eggs average 1"075" x •9.3". My four 

 Indian eggs are 1 -06" x -98", Ml x 9fi", 105" x -03" and 1-07" X -91". 



