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Varying much in size, the eggs of the Australian Coucal range 

 from 1-60 to 1-31 in length, and from 1-29 to 1 02 in breadth. 



1. Australia, 16th Dec. 

 1. Port Essington, Australia ( Wi 

 25. North Queensland, Jan. & Feb. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Gould Coll. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders. Esq. 



[P.]. 



Centropus sinensis (Steph.). 



Centropus philippensis, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 450 



(1854). 



Centropus rufipeimis, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 260 (1878). 

 Centrococcyx runpennis, C. intermedius, & C. maxiinus, Oates ed. Hume, 



Nests $ Eggs 2nd. Birds, ii. pp. 400-405 (1890). 

 Centropus sinensis, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 343 (1891) ; Blanf. 



Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 239 (1895) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 480 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 1(37 (1900). 



The eggs of the Common Coucal or Crow-Pheasant measure from 

 1'2 to 1*6 in length, and from 1 to 1*23 in breadth. 



8. 



Eastern Narra, Sind, 



(Scrope Doig}. 

 26. Eastern Narra (S. -D.). 

 3. Agra, 25th July. 



2. Agra, Aug. 



1 . M irz apur , 20th May ( W. E. Brooks : 



Tristram Coll.). 

 12. Allahabad. 



3. Allahabad, 4th July. 



2. Allahabad, 21st Aug. 



1. Etawah, 1st Aug. 



3. Jhansi, 23rd June. 



2. Jhansi, 18th July. 

 2. Jhansi, 6th Aug. 

 7. Jhansi, 7th Aug. 



1. Raipur, C. Provs., 2nd June (F. R. 

 Blewitt}. 



1. Raipur, 15th June (F. R. B.}. 

 5. Raipur, 20th June (F. R. B.). 



2. Raipur, 5th July (F. R. B.}. 

 1. Raipur, 15th July (F. R. B.}. 

 5. Raipur, 20th July (F. R. B.). 



3. Monghyr, Bengal. 



1. Nilghiri Hills, S. India, May. 



1. Kotagherri, Nilghiri Hills, 31st 



March (Miss Cockburn). 



2. Ceylon (E. L. Layard: Tristram 



Coll.}. 



1. Tippera, 20th May ( V. Irwin). 

 1. Pegu, 24th Aug. (E. W. Oates}. 

 1. Pegu, 26th Aug. (E. W. O.}. 

 1. Pegu, 26th Aug. (E. W. O.}. 

 1. Pegu, 25th July (E. W. O.). 

 1. Pegu, 12th Aug. (E. W. O.}. 

 1. Pegu, 24th Aug. (E. W. O.}. 



3rd July Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. % 

 Prof. Oldham [P.], 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 



