114 CUCUIJD^. 



Cuculus saturatus, Hodgs. 



Cuculus striatus, Stvinhoe, Ihis, 1861, pp. 259. 340. 



Cuculus iudicus, Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, p. 95, taf. i. figs. 7 & 8. 



Cuculus intenuedius, Gates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eqrjs Ind. Birds, ii. 



p. 381 (1^90) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. '252 (1891). 

 Cuculus satLiratus, Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 207 (1895) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 158 (1900). 



An egg of the Asiatic Cuckoo in the Collection taken by Swinhoe 

 from a nest of Pi/cnonotus sinensis is now imperfect, but appears to 

 correspond well with Mr. Hume's description of an egg of this 

 species. It is of a pinkish-white colour, thickly freckled with 

 purplish grey. It measures '67 in breadth. 



1. Anxoj {B. Swinhoe : Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Cuculus poliocephalus. Lath. 

 (Plate II. fig. 3.) 



Cuculus poliocephalus, Legge, Birds Cej/lo?i, p. 231 (1878) ; Oates ed. 



Hume, Nests 4" ^9(1^ ^'>^d- Birds, ii. p. 382 (1890); Shelley, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xix. p. 255 (1891) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 



p. 208 (1895) ; Osmaston, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 472 



(1898); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 171 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. \i. 



p. 158 (1900). 

 Cuculus poliocephalus, var. rochii, Milne-Edioards 8f Grandidier, Hist. 



Nat. Maday., Ois. i. p. 176 (1879). 

 Cuculus rochii, Cowan, Proc. Boy. Bhys. Soc. Edinb. pp. 142, 149 (1882). 



The eggs of the Grey-headed Cuckoo taken in Madagascar by 

 Mr. Cowan are of a regular oval shape, smooth and very glossy. 

 They are white, spotted aud speckled with umber-brown, more 

 thickly at the large end than elsewhere, and with a few underlying 

 pale purplish markings. They measure respectively : '75 by -So ; 

 •7 by -48 ; '72 by -56 ; -75 by -54. 



Some eggs of this species from the Crowley Collection are very 

 similar, but the markings are more numerous, and form a well- 

 defined zone round the broad end. 



An e^§, taken by Mr. Osmaston and attributed to this species is 

 described as being chocolate-colour. It was probably the e^g of 

 Chalcococcyx macidatus. 



An egg taken by Mr. Erooks, and believed to belong to this 

 species, is described as being pure white and glossy. 



4. Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



2. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Tamala Country, Madagascar Crowley Bequest. 



( W. Deans Cowan). 



Cuculus pallidus (Lath.). 



Cacomantis pallidus, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 015 (1865) ; North, 

 Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 243 (1889). 



