104 CUCULIDJE. 



Coccystes cafer (Llclit.). 



Coccystes cafer, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds 8. Africa, p. 158 (1875-84) ; 

 'Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 221 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l ii. 

 p. 156 (1900). 



An egg of Levaillant's Cuckoo in the Collection is nearly elliptical 

 in shape, and quite devoid of all gloss. It is of a pale greyish colour, 

 very densely spotted and freckled all over with lavender and two 

 shades of brown. It measures 1'09 by *8. 



1. Bissao, Senegambia (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus SURNICULUS, Less. 



Surniculus lugubris (Horsf.). 



Surniculus lugubris, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 227 (1891) ; Blanf. 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 223 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier&amtnl. 

 p. 170 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 156 (1900). 



The eggs of the Drongo Cuckoo are of a blunt oval shape and 

 moderately glossy. They are of a pinkish-white colour, marked, 

 chiefly in the form of a zone round the broad end, with pale lilac- 

 brown and lavender. Two examples measure respectively ; '8 by 

 59 ; -79 by -54. 



1. Himalayas (Nehrkorn Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Java, 2nd May (with 2 eggs of Crowley Bequest. 

 Pycnonotus aurigaster). 



Genus HIEROCOCCYX, 8. Mull. 



Hierococcyx varius ( Valil). 



(Plate II. fig. 7.) 



Hierococcyx varius, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 240 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, 

 Wests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 383 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xix. p. 234 (1891) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 213 

 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 170 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. 

 p. 157 (1900). 



An egg of the Common Indian Hawk-Cuckoo found by Mr. Iver 

 Macpherson in the nest of Crateropus canorus is of a broad elliptical 

 form, smooth, highly glossy, and of a deep blue colour. It measures 

 1-12 by '82. Nehrkorn describes the egg as being spotted. 



1. Mysore, S, India, 26th May (/. Mac- Hume Coll. 

 pherson). 



Hierococcyx fugax (Horsf.). 



Hierococcyx fugax, Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 202 ; 1890, p. 10 ; Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xix. p. 236, part. (1891); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 170 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 157 (1900). 



