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VI, p. 162 ; Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 249 ; Scully, S. F., VIII, p. 257 ; 

 Vidal, ibid., IX, p. 55 ; Oates, B. of Burm., II, p. 117 ; id., Hume's 

 Nests and Eggs, 2nd Ed., II., p. 391 ; Barnes, B. of Bom., p. 130 ; 

 Shelly, Cat. B. M., XIX, p. 214 ; Blanford, Fauna of B. I., Ill, p. 226 ; 

 Stuart Baker, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc, X, p. 369 ; Nehrkorn, Cat. der 

 Eier., p. 170 ; Reid, Cat. Eggs B. M., Ill, p. 103. 



The first oviduct egg of this bird was taken by Mr. Valentine 

 Irwin from a female shot in Tipperah. This is the egg described by 

 Reid in the B. M. Cat., and is now in the collection of the British 

 Museum, but I cannot find any record of the date on which it was shot. 

 Mr. Mandelli and Mr. Hume himself also obtained oviduct eggs. The 

 bird was extremely common in Cachar some years, and here in 

 Dibrugarh it is equally common, and a very large series of eggs, many 

 authentic without doubt, though not oviduct ones, has passed through 

 my hands. 



On the 31st May, 1890, I noosed a Red-winged Cuckoo on a nest of 

 Gamdax moniliger. A noose had been set on the nest, which contained 

 three eggs, for the parent bird ; but while we were watching, the cuckoo 

 slipped on to the nest, and was caught by the head and one wing by the 

 noose. Whilst struggling to escape she broke one of the Gamdax eggs, 

 but to my delight laid one herself in the nest. 



I got no more eggs in 1891, but in 1892 these cuckoos swarmed in 

 North Cachar, and I got eggs in numbers. On the 30th May I shot a 

 Red-wingad Cuckoo as it left a nest of Garrulax moniliger. This nest 

 contained two cuckoos' eggs, but one was congealed and bad and must 

 have been laid long prior to the second one. On the 17th I got 

 another egg in the nest of Garrulax peetoralis (The Black-gorgeted 

 Laughing-Thrush). This was the only egg in the nest, the parent bird 

 was not shot, but there can be no doubt as to its identity. 



On the 1st June a Cachari brought in a nest of Copsychus satdaris (The 

 Magpie-Robin) with three Copsychus eggs and one egg of this cuckoo. 

 He also brought in a female coromandus which contained the remains of 

 an egg ready to be laid, but completely smashed by the slug which had 

 killed the bird. On the 17th June yet another egg was taken from 

 the nest of a Gamdax moniliger. 



After that I took other eggs of this cuckoo in North Cachar, all in 

 nests of Gamdax moniliger and peetoralis, except one in the nest of G. 

 leueolophus (The Himalayan White-crested Laughing-Thrush). 



