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Ololygon tenuirostris. Hume, S. F., II, p. 472; ibid., Ill, p. 80. 



Penthoeeryx sonnerati. Blanford, Fauna of B. I., Ill, p. 219 ; Reid 

 Gat. Eggs B. M., Ill, p. 115, Plate II, fig. 2. 



From Hume's Nests and Eggs we have one note to the effect that 

 fragments of an egg extracted from the oviduct of a female of this 

 species, shot in the Nailgherries on the 19th May, 1874, "are pali bluish- 

 green and quite spotless." I cannot find out who shot this bird. It is 

 probably, however, that this record is a mistake, as Mr. Davidson, I.C.S., 

 has also an oviduct egg which is totally different. 



It is also recorded that eggs, believed to be of this species and 

 taken from the nests of Otocompsa fuseicaudata (The Southern Red- 

 whiskered Bulbul) are " moderately broad ovals, distinctly pointed 

 towards the small end. The shell fine, smooth and with a faint gloss. 

 The ground colour white or merely so, with ever so slight a pinky tinge. 

 They measured 0'83" and 0'81"in length by 0*62" and 0*61", respectively, 

 in breadth." This agrees with Reid's description in the British Museum 

 Catalogue and may refer to the same eggs. One of these is fairly shewn 

 in PI. II, fig. 3, of the Third Vol. of the B. Museum Cat. These eggs 

 were taken in Coorg, S. India, on the 18th July. 



Mr. J. Davidson, as already noted, appears to have the only oviduct 

 egg of this species in existence. He writes me on the oology of this 

 cuckoo as follows : — 



" Of this bird I have one egg extracted from a shot bird. It is from 

 the Barnes' collection, and the bird was shot on 1st June, 1893, near 

 Mhow, by Mr. J. A. Kemp. It is a fairly large egg for the size of the 

 bird, ground colour lilac, with numerous small pink spots scattered 

 all over it. I noticed this bird at the Khondabari Ghat in Khandesh in 

 the rains, and it was very common in all the more open parts of Kanara. 

 I have four eggs which, I believe, belong to this bird. Two were taken 

 from the nests of 0. fuseicaudata in Kanara (9th February, 1890, and 

 16th March, 1893). They much resemble the egg extracted, but are 

 slightly smaller ; the ground colour is of a brownish-pink, and neither in 

 shape nor markings did they resemble the bulbul's eggs with which 

 they were found. 



" The others were taken from the nest of Dumetia albigularis (The 

 Small White-throated Babbler), one on 31st August, 1885, in the 

 Khondabari Ghat, Khandesh, and the other in the Nassik Dangs on 

 1st June, 1 887. One is similar in dze to those just described, the other 



