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satisfy myself that it was really this Cuckoo that fed the young, I 

 shot one in the very act, and found it to be no other than our 

 summer visitant, Cuculus intermedius" 



One egg taken out of a female bird of this species (which he 

 shot at Euttun Pir, Cashmir, on the 17th June) by Mr. Brooks is 

 a very perfect elongated oval, a shade narrower at one end. The 

 ground-colour is pure white, with a slight gloss. The markings, 

 which are everywhere very sparse, are somewhat most numerous 

 towards the larger end, and consist of minute specks and tiny lines, 

 not more than 0-05 inch in length, of dingy olive-brown and very 

 pale inky purple or purplish grey. 



The egg measures 0-89 by 0-6 inch. 



Cuculus polio cephalus, Lath. The Grey-headed Cuckoo. 



Cuculus poliocephalus, Lath., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 324 ; Hume, Rouyh 

 Draft N. $ E. no. 201. 



Nothing certain is known of the eggs of this species, the Grey- 

 headed Cuckoo. Mr. E. Thompson says it lays in May and 

 June, and that he has killed old and young birds together in 

 June. 



An egg believed to belong to this species was taken by Mr. 

 Brooks out of a nest of Pliylloscopus humii at Goolmerg, Cashmere, 

 on the 2nd of June. It is an elongated, cylindrically ovate egg, 

 nearly the same size at both ends, which are both obtuse ; pure 

 vhite and glossy. The nest Contained three of the eggs of 

 P. humii, which are only about half the size of this egg, almost 

 glossless, and richly spotted with red. 



The egg measures 0'81 by 0-57 inch. 



Cuculus sonnerati, Lath. The Sanded Bay Cuckoo. 



Cuculus sormeratii, Lath., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 325 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 202. 



Eggs supposed to belong to this species, and found in the nest 

 of Otocompsa fuscicaudata, are moderately broad ovals, distinctly 

 pointed towards the small end. The shell fine, smooth, and with 

 a faint gloss. The ground-colour white or nearly so, with ever so 

 slight a pinky tinge, and they are in some cases very thinly 

 sprinkled, in others more profusely adorned with specks, spots, 

 and irregular hieroglyphic-like marks of a rather dull brick-red, 

 which has at times somewhat of a brownish tinge. They measured 

 0-83 and 0-81 in length, by 0-62 and 0-61 respectively in breadth. 



Fragments of an egg-shell extracted from the oviduct of a female 

 of the Banded Bay Cuckoo, shot on the jN'ilghiris on the 19th May, 

 1874, are pale bluish green and quite spotless. 



