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CrCULIDJt. 



Sub-Order CUCULL 



Family CUCULIU.E. 

 Sub-Family CUCULlN.l]. 



Genus COCCYSTES, Gloger. 

 Coccystes glandarius (Linn.). 



Oxylophus glandarius, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 50. fig. 4 (1855-63) ; 



Baedeker, L. Brchm Sf A. Brehm, J.f. O. 1853, p. 117, taf. v. fig. 4; 



Scdvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 316 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1869, p. 401 ; 1871, p. 06. 

 Cuculus f;landaiius, Hetvitso7i, Ibis, 1859, p. 76, pi. ii. figs. 1 & 2 ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 386, pi. 68 (1884) ; id. E(jgs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 174, pi. 49. fig. 7 (1896). 

 Coccystes glandarius, Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 219 (1874) ; Shelley, Cat. 



'Birds B. M. xix. p. 212 (1891) ; Irby, Orn. Sir. Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 136 



(1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. n. p. 155 (1900) ; Ivi/, Ibis, 1901, p. 22. 



The eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckoo are almost invariably of an 

 elliptical form, the two ends being quite alike in contour. The 

 shell is smooth and possesses a considerable amount of gloss. The 

 ground-colour is pale greenish blue, and this is thickly speckled 

 and streaked with pale reddish brown and underlying violet-grey. 

 On some specimens there are, in addition, some scrawls and hair- 

 lines of deep brown, forming a wreath round the larger end. They 

 measure from 1-23 to 1-4 in length, and from '92 to 1-05 in 

 breadth. 



The eggs of this Cuckoo may be separated from those of the 

 Magpie, in the nest of which it usually deposits its eggs, by their 

 elliptical shape and reddish-brown markings, those of the Magpie 

 being of a pointed oval shape and the markings olive-brown. 



1. Spain {H. Savnders). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Aianjuez, Spain, .30th April {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Aranjuez, 8th May (//. -S'.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Seville, Spain, 6th April (//. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Seville, 24th Mav. Seebohm Coll. 

 6. Near Seville (i. H. Irhy). Seebohm Coll. 

 6. Malaga, Spain, 26th April. Seebohm Coll. 



2. New Castile, Spain, May {Lord Crowley Bequest. 



Lilford: Tristram Coll.). 

 1. Algeria, 20th Mav {H. B. Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram). 

 1. Batna, Algeria, 4th June (H. B. T.). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Madracen, Algeria, 5th June Crowley Bequest. 



{H. B. T.). 

 1. Ain Djendeh, Algeria, 20th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. Sali'in); 



1. Ain Djendeli, 25th May (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. With two eggs of P?m/>?ea, Anda- Seebohm Coll. 



lusia, 1st May (H. Saunders). 



