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Campus. On account of the location 

 of the magpies' nests we have not 

 been able to examine many of the eggs 

 and have not found the cuckoo's 

 among them, but we believe that they 

 do slip their eggs into their neighbors' 

 nests and that the magpies do raise 

 their young for them. If the habit 

 so often ascribed to the young cuckoos 

 is really true, we have seen many 

 evidences of their pushing the smaller 

 magpies out of the nest. Often they 

 are found on the ground under the 

 nests, and it may be that they have 

 been pushed out by the stronger and 

 more greedy young cuckoo. 



The egg of this bird has a ground 

 color of pinkish white, specked and 

 spotted more thickly around the larger 

 end with round, rich-red markings ; the 

 smaller end has fewer markings." 



Notes. — This bird begins his 

 call in the early morning and 

 keeps it up pretty constantly through- 

 out the day. The call is a whistle of 

 three or four notes which has been 

 thus spelled, " kwi-kwohkwok, " or 

 " Kwikwi-kwohkwok." The Chinese 

 interpret this as an exhortation to 

 hurry with their work, " quick, quick, 

 reap wheat," ."quick, quick, plant 

 rice," "quick, quick, plant cotton." 



The female .oi this bird has a call 

 also much like a shrill, quick laughter, 

 or as if made by quick repetition of 

 the syllable " kuk ". 



RED-WINGED CRESTED 

 CUCKOO. 



CLAMATOR COEOMANDUS (l.) 

 [Coccystes coromandus (L).] 

 Description. — Length fourteen a/nd 

 one half inches. 



