COCCTSTES. 1 03 



2. With four eg-g-s of P. pica, Anda- Seebohm Coll. 



lusia, 3rd May (//. S.). 

 4. With three eggs o^ P. pica, Aran- Seebohm Coll. 



juez, Spain, 29lh April (H. S.). 



Coccystes coromandus {Linn.). 

 (Plate II. fig. 4.) 



Coccystes coromandus, Legqe, Birds Cexjlon, p. 249 (1878) ; Oates ed. 

 Hume, Nests 8f Erjgs 'ind. Birds, ii. p. 391 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xix. p. 214 (1891) ; BUmf. Fauna-Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 

 p. 226 (1895) ; Nekrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p, 170 (1899) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l ii. p. 155 (1900). 



An egg of the Eed- winged Crested Cuckoo, taken by Mr. Valentine 

 Irwin from the oviduct of a female in Tippera, is spheroidal in 

 shape, smooth, very glossy, and of a plain pale blue colour. It 

 measures 1'03 by "88. 



1. Tippera ( V. Invi^i). Hume Cull. 



Coccystes jacobinus {Bodd.). 



(Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Coccystes jacobinus, Sharpe, ed. Layard^s Birds S. Africa, p. 158 (1875- 

 84) ; Lef/(je, Birds Cei/lon, p. 246 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hmne, JVests 3r 

 Eggs Lid. Birds, ii. p. 388 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. 

 p. 217 (1891); Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 225 (1895) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 170 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 155 

 (1900) ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 23. 



The eggs of the Pied Crested Cuckoo are usually deposited in 

 India in the nests of the various species of Babblers {Argya and 

 Crateropus), the eggs of which birds they closely resemble in size and 

 colour: The Cuckoo's eggs are of a spheroidal or broad elliptical 

 shape, very smooth and glossy, and of a dark blue colour. The 

 eggs of the Babblers are almost invariably of a pointed oval shape, 

 and the Cuckoo's eggs may generally be separated from them by their 

 shape. They measure from -88 to 1-02 in length, and from -72 

 o "82 in breadth. 



India. W. RadclifFe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



South Africa. Old Collection. 



Sind. Ci'owley Bequest. 



Futteghur. (Jrowley Bequest. 



Allahabad, India. Hume Coll. 



Allahabad, 28tb July. Hume Coll. 



Jhansi, N.W. Frovs.', Aug. {F. R. Hume Coll. 



Bleioitt). 



Jhansi, 28th June {F. R. B.). Hume Coll. 



Jhansi, 18th July. Hume Coll. 



Jubbulpur, 2nd July (J. A. Kemp). Crowlev Bequests 



Nilghiri Hills, 22nd Feb. Hume Coll. 



Aptoor, Madras, 18th Aug. {A. G. Himie Coll. 



R. Theobald). 



