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They are very much like one type of Alcippe eggs, but pinker and 

 different in texture and, again, did not agree with their fbstero eggs. 



These three eggs average 'To" X *56", and agree in shape and tex- 

 ture with those already described. 



The fourth egg was taken by Dr. Gregerson in the 1st August, also 

 in the nest of Alcippe nepalensis; this egg I have not seen, but he 

 describes as agreeing exactly with fig. 1 in PI. Ill, whereas the Alcippe 

 eggs were of the pure white type, with a ring of purple scriggles round 

 the large end. The Cuckoo's egg was fresh, the others hard set. 



The Violet Cuckoo is confined to the East of the Empire, through- 

 out Assam, in parts of which it is quite common, especially Cachar and 

 Dibrugarh, the whole of Burmah and Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Borneo, Java, the Andamans and Nicobars. It is said to be rare 

 everywhere throughout its range, and there is practically nothing on 

 record about its habits, voice, &c. Mr. Hole told me that he could not 

 distinguish between the notes of the two little cuckoos of this genus, 

 hat they kept much to the tops of the lofty trees on high ground, 

 except the females who might sometimes be found skulking in brush- 

 wood in nullahs and broken ground at the foot of the mountains. The 

 call of both species, he said, was a loud, shrill, but not unmusical, whistle 

 of three ascending notes. Unlike most cuckoos, he did not find them 

 shy, but they were hard to procure on account of their selecting the very 

 highest trees to hunt for food. They were very fond of haunting 

 Bombax trees when these were in flower. 



Chrysococcyx maculatus. (Gmel.) 

 Tlie Emerald Cuckoo. 

 Chrysococcyx hodgsoni. Jerdon, B. of I., I, p. 338 ; Davidson, S. 

 F., X., p. 299. 



Lamprococcyx maculatus. Hume and Dav., S. F., VI, pp. 161, 503. 



Chrysococcyx maculatus. Hume, Cat. No. 211 ; id., S. F., IX, 



p. 218 ; ibid., XI, p. 74 ; Bingham, ibid., IX, p. 167 ; Oates, B. of 



Burm., II, p. 113 ; Stuart Baker, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc, X, p. 367 ; 



Blanford, Fauna of B. I., Ill, p. 222 ; Reid, Cat. Eggs B. M., Ill, p. 117- 



Cuculus macidatus. Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 238. 



Chalcococcyx maculatus. Shelly, Cat. B. M., XIX, p. 291 ; Oates, 



Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd Ed., II, p. 387. 



There are a good many notes recorded about the supposed eggs of 

 this beautiful little cuckoo, but every single note, as we know now 



