200 COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 



the bird, and their description was echoed a few hom-s after by another Arab 

 from another part, who brought a single egg, agreeing with the former two. 

 The nest from which this was taken Mr. Tristram afterwards visited. He 

 described it as being in a hole in a tree formed of a decayed stump. This hole 

 was about eighteen inches deep and very open ; the nest was placed at the 

 bottom, and consisted of a few sticks with a lining of roots and grass. Mr. 

 Tristram saw both birds near the place. A third nest of four eggs was brought 

 in on the evening of the same day, and a similar description given of the bird. 

 Of these four eggs, two were slightly imperfect in the shell — one more so than 

 the other, shewing the order in which they had been laid. There could be no 

 doubt that all four came from the same nest. Each of the three Arabs was 

 shewn a number of skins, and each selected a common Cuckoo and pointed out 

 wherein the Great Spotted Cuckoo differed. The latter is a well-known bird 

 among the Arabs of Djendeli. A nest was shewn to Mr. Tristram by the Arabs 

 near the Madracen. He says that on drawing near he saw one of the birds 

 leave the hole. This nest had two eggs." Messrs. Tristram, Hudleston, and 

 Salvin appear to have got between them twelve eggs of the bird, taken from 

 five nests.] 



[§ 703. r«^o.— Egypt, 3 May, 1863. "J. H.C." From Mr. 

 J. H. Cochrane. 



From, I understand, a Grey Crow's nest, as were several others taken by him 

 earlier in the same season, and recorded by him in ' The Ibis ' (18G3, pp. -301- 

 3G3).] 



[§ 704. 0?ie. — Aranjuez, Spain, 29 April, 1865. From Lord 

 ' Lilford.] 



[§ 705. T/iree. —kranjuez, 3 May, 1865. From Lord Lilford.] 



[§ 706. 0;?^.— Seville, Spain, April 1869. From Lord Lilford, 



1884.] 



[§ 707. /^/re.— Aranjuez, 1872. From Lord Lilford, 1884. 



All these Spanish eggs were found, I believe, in Pies' nests. Lord Lilford's 

 observations on the habits of this species are in 'The Ibis' (1866, pp. 177-179, 

 184, and 187.] 



