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Cuculiis pallidus, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 261 (1891) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 171 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 159 (1900) ; 

 Campbell, Nests Si- Egys Austr. Birds, ii. p. 564, pi. 16 (1901). 



The eggs of the Pallid Cuckoo are of a pointed oval shape and 

 exhibit a con.siderable amount of gloss. They are flesh-coloured, 

 very sparingly speckJed with chestnut. Five examples measure 

 from -92 to -98 in length, and from -68 to 7 in breadth. 



1. Australia {E. D. Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



-2. Australia. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Oakleigh, Victoria {E. P. Sei/mour). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Western Point, Victoria, 19th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. Nort/i). ^ ^ 



1. Melbourne, 14 Oct. (.4. /. .V.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria. F.A.Philbrick,Esq.,K.C.rP.l. 



1. Canterbury, New South Wales, 20th Crowlev Bequest. 



Oct. (with 2 eggs of Ptilntis 

 aiiricomis). 



Genus PENTHOCERYX, Cah. 



Penthoceryx sonnevati (Lath.). 



(Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Cuculus sonnerati, Legge, Birds Ceijlon, p. 233 (1878) ; Oates ed. Eume, 

 Nests S; Eggs Ltd. Birds, ii. p. 382 (1890) ; Shelleu, Cat. Birds B. 

 31. xix. p. 262 (1891). 



Penthoceryx sonnerati, Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 219 (1895) • 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 159 (1900). 



Two eggs in the Collection, attributed to the Banded Bay Cuckoo, 

 must be accepted with great doubt in view of Mr. Hume's statement 

 that the fragments of an egg-shell extracted from the oviduct of a 

 female of this species were pale bluish green and quite spotless. 



They are of a rather pointed oval form, smooth, and very ^lossv. 

 The ground-colour is white, and they are marked with brick-red. 

 In one specimen the markings are "minute specks ; in the other 

 spots and small blotches. They measure respectively : S-Z by -64 ; 

 •8 by '61. 



2. Coorg, S. India, 18th .July. Hume Coll. 



Genus CACOMANTIS, S. MiUl. 



Cacomantis flabelliformis (Lath.). 



Cuculus cineraceus, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 463; 1869, p. S60, 

 pi. xxvii. fig. 4. r r ' 



Cacomantis flabelliformis, Gould, Hatidb. Birds AuMr. i. p. 618 (1865) ; 

 ^orth, Nests Sc Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 244, pi. .\iii. %, 7 (1889); 

 Shelley. Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 266 (1891): Sharps, Hand-l. ii. 



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