GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO 



PLATE LVI I.* FIGURE I. 



Cuculus glandarius, . . . LATHAM. GOULD, 



THIS species, which is a native of Southern and South- 

 western Europe and North Africa, has only once 

 occurred in Ireland. 



The egg is pale green, streaked and spotted with 

 russet and dull lilac. 



Howard Saunders says it is common in Spain, where 

 it deposits its eggs in the nest of the Magpie, and that 

 he has found as many as four of its eggs with six of the 

 Magpie's in one nest. 



