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2. With four eggs of P. pica, Anda- Seebohm Coll. 



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

 4. With three eggs of P. pica, A ran- Seebohm Coll. 



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



Coccystes coromandus (Linn.). 

 (Plate II. fig. 4.) 



Coccystes coromandus, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 249 (1878) ; Gates ed. 

 Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 391 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. 

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

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

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



An egg of the Red- 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. Irwin). Hume Coll. 



Coccystes jacobinus (Bodd.}. 

 (Plate II. fig. 6.) 



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

 84) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 246 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests $ 

 Eggs Ind. 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 

 to -82 in breadth. 



1. India. W. Radcliffe Sauuders, Esq.. 



[P.]- 



1. South Africa. Old Collection. 



1 . Sind. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Futteghur. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Allahabad, India. Hume Coll. 



1. Allahabad, 28th July. Hume Coll. 



1. Jhansi, N.W. Provs., Aug. (F. R. Hume Coll. 



Blewitft. 



1. Jhansi, 28th June (F. R. B.}. Hume Coll. 



1. Jhansi, 18th July. Hume Coll. 



1 . Jubbulpur, 2nd July (J. A. Kemp). Crowley Bequest- 



2. Nilghiri Hills, 22nd Feb. Hume Coll. 

 1. Aptoor, Madras, 18th Aug. (A. G. Hume Colh 



R. Theobald). 



