the Birds of Chinkiang. 7 
province by the Rev. Father Perrin, 8.J., belongs to this 
pale form of C. canorus. 
I have four eggs taken at Chinkiang which I attribute 
to C. canorus. One was brought to me on June 20, 1900, 
in a new nest of Suthora webbiana which contained no other 
egg. It is broadly ovate in shape and has a greenish creamy 
ground-colour. It is covered with specks, spots, and blotches 
of burnt sienna and reddish purple over pale purple under- 
lying spots. The markings form an irregular ring round 
the larger end and are often confluent. It measures 0°84 x 
0°65". The second egg was brought to me on June 6 of the 
following year, with a number of other specimens. I think 
that it had been found in a nest of Pycnonotus sinensis. It 
is of a long ovate (nearly oval) form, and a light yellowish 
green colour, with a well-marked ring of very dark burnt 
sienna, and bright violet spots and specks over underlying 
violet spots. It has also a few specks of burnt sienna and 
violet over the rest of the egg. It measures 0°87 x 0°63”. 
The other two eggs were brought to me on June 20 and 
June 28, 1903, in nests of Cisticola cursitans, which con- 
tained, besides, two and five eggs respectively. ‘These eggs, 
one of along oval-ovate and the other of an oval-ovate shape, 
are light greyish green, spotted, chiefly on the broad half of 
the egg, with bright burnt sienna and purple over paler 
purple underlying shell-spots. The markings are generally 
large and irregular in shape. They measure 0°88 x 0°60” 
and 0°87 x 0°65”. 
Considering the numbers of nests of Acrocephalus orien- 
talis which I have seen, it is strange that I should not have 
found a single Cuckoo’s egg in any of them. The Cuckoos 
were always to be heard and seen about the reed-beds, and 
were certainly breeding there. The fact that I did not obtain 
any specimens was, I suppose, due to ill-luck. 
130. CucuLus InTERMEDIvUs Vahl. 
Cuculus striatus Vahl ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 484. 
Cuculus intermedius Vahl; La Touche, Ibis, 1898, pp. 360, 
370; 1900, p. 45. 
The collectors shot eight specimens of this Cuckoo between 
