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Cuculus poliocephalus. Oviduct egg taken by Osmaston. As saturalus 

 but uniform chocolate-pink. 



Oviduct eggs taken by llattray the same, but pure white. 



Cuculus micropterus. In all probability pale blue, rarely faintly 

 marked. Fine silky texture. Shape broad oval. 



Hierococcyx sparverioides. Oviduct egg. Rattray. Pale blue. 

 Long oval. Stout, hard texture, glossy and not very fine. Possibly 

 also chocolate-brown. 



Hierococcyx varius. Oviduct eggs. Blue texture like satin. Shape 

 elliptical or spheroidal. 



Hierococcyx niskolor. Oviduct egg. Mandelli. Olive-brown or 

 olive-green, sometimes marked with reddish. Texture fine and silky. 

 Shape elliptical. 



Hierococcyx nanus. Nothing known. 



Caccomantis passerinus. Oviduct eggs. Miss Cockburn. Eggs 

 like large Orthotomus eggs, of both blue and white varieties. 



Caccomantis merulinus. Possibly like large eggs of Prinia inornata 

 and of Orthotomus. 



Penthoceryx ' sonnerati. Oviduct egg. Kemp. Brownish-pink 

 ground, speckled and freckled with reddish-brown. Texture and shape 

 as in canorus. 



Chrysococcyx xanthonotus. j Probably, as above, but with general 

 ,, maculatus. ) tone, far more pink and less brown. 



Surniculus lugubris. Probably white to pale-pink in ground, blotched 

 with reddish, &c, texture hard and close, sometimes glossy, shape 

 broad oval. 



Coccystes jacobinus. Oviduct eggs. Dark blue-green. Texture 

 extremely fine and silky, surface smooth. Shape broad, elliptical. 



Coccysles coromandus. Oviduct eggs : pale blue-green. Texture as 

 jacobinus. Shape spheroidal. 



Eudynamis honorata. Well known. General tone green, blotched 

 reddish. 



