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have distinguished it from any ordinary enlargement or knot of the 

 branch, it contained 4 pale blue eggs, spotted and blotched with 

 dull purple, and given to the Rhodesian Museum. 



In the same connection the following note in contributed byf 

 Mr. A. Roberts. 



The egg of Clamator cafer was described by Dr. Ansorge, and 

 the nest and eggs of Prionops talacoma by S. A. Neave; there is 

 also a clutch of four eggs of the latter in the Transvaal Museum 

 collection, taken by F. Streeter at Hector Spruit. 



The point which has interested me is your finding the egg 

 in the nest of Crateropus jardinei, evidently a special choice of 

 the cuckoo. Did you notice whether there was any difference 

 in the texture of the cuckoo and babbler eggs? The other, 

 smaller, black and white cuckoos seem always to lay pure white 

 eggs and are not particular as to the host: I have found one of 

 these white eggs in the tiny nest of Parisoma subcaeruleum! 



