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I lost sight of it in the long grass, but almost immediately afterwards it 

 again flew up to the nest and remained about a half minute and then 

 flew away. I then walked up to the foot of the tree and looking down 

 to where the Cuckoo had settled I saw to my astonishment an egg on 

 the ground. On examining it I found that it was one of the Babbler's 

 eggs that I had marked. Leaving the egg on the ground I got up to 

 the nest and found to my delight that there were three eggs in the 

 nest, two of them the marked Babbler's eggs and the third this large 

 round one unmarked and undoubtedly a Cuckoo's. On removing the 

 nest one of the Babbler's eggs unfortunately got broken. I. cannot 

 say whether the Babbler's egg was removed first and then the Cuckoo's 

 egg put in, or vice vsrsa." 



I have taken a considerable number of eggs of this Cuckoo this year, 

 and in addition to the fosterers already mentioned must be added (1) 

 the Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Petrophila erythrogastra), (2) the 

 Eastern Yellow- winged Laughing Thrush (Trechalopterum chrysopte- 

 rum), (3) The Black-headed Shrike (Lanius niyriceps) and (4) The 

 Orange-headed Ground-Thrush (Geocichla citrina). 



COOOYSTES CORAMANDUS. 



The Red-ivinged Crested Cuckoo. 



I have taken the eggs of this fine Cuckoo this year (1906) in the 



nests of the Rufous-chinned Laughing Thrush (lantho-cincla rufigularis) 



twice, the Yellow-winged Laughing Thrush, and a Scimitar Babbler 



(Pomatorhinus maclellandi). 



