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Cuculus 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 Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, ii. p. 561, pi. 16 (1901). 



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

 exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. They are tiesh-coloured, 

 very sparingly speckled 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. Radcliff'e Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Oakleigh, Victoria {E. P. Seymour). Crowley Bequest. 



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



{A. J. North). 



1. Melbourne, 1-^t Oct. [A. J. N.). Crowlev Bequest. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria. F.A.Piailbrick,Esq.,K.C.[P.]. 



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



Oct. (with 2 eggs of Ptilotis 



auricomis). 



Genus PENTHOCERYX, Cab. 

 Penthoceryx sonnerati (Lath.). 



(Plate TI. fig. 2.) 



Cuculus sonnerati, Leqge, Birds Ceylon, p. 233 (1878); Oates ed. Hume, 

 Nests Si- Eggs hid. Birds, ii. p. 382 (1890) ; Shelley, 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 glossy. 

 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 : -82 by -B-l ; 

 •8 by -61. 



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



Genus CACOMANTIS, S. Mull. 



Cacomantis flabelliformis {Lath.). 



Cuculus cineraceus, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 463; 1869, p. 360, 



pi. xxvii. fig. 4. 

 Cacomantis flabelliformis, Goidd, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 618 (1865) ; 



North, Nests 8c Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 244, pi. xiii. fig. 7 (1889) ; 



Shelley, Cat. Bird's B. M. xix. p. 266 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. 



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