102 ctrcuLiB^. 



Sub-Order CUCULI. 



Family CUCULIDJi. 



Sub-Family CUCULIN^. 



Genus COCCYSTES, Qloger. 



Coccystes glandarius {Linn.). 



Oxylophus glandai'iiis, Baedeker, Eien- Eur. Vog. tab. 50. fig. 4 (1855-63) ; 



Baedeker, L. Brehm ^ A. Brehm, J.f. O. 1853, p. 117, taf. v. flg. 4; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 316 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1869, p. 401 ; 1871, p. 66. 

 Cuculus glandarius, Hewitson, Ibis, 1859, p. 76, pi. ii. figs. 1 & 2 ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 386, pi. 68 (1884) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 174, pi. 49. fig. 7 (1896). 

 Coccystes glandarius, Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 219 (1874) ; Shelley, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xix. p. 212 (1891) ; Irhy, Orn. Sir. Oibr. 2nd ed. p. 136 



(1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 155 (1900) ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 22. 



The eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckoo are almost invariably of an 

 elliptical form, the two ends being quite alike in contour. The 

 shell is smooth and possesses a considerable amount of gloss. The 

 ground-colour is pale greenish blue, and this is thickly speckled 

 and streaked with pale reddish brown and underlying violet-grey. 

 On some specimens there are, in addition, some scrawls and hair- 

 lines of deep brown, forming a wreath round the larger end. They 

 measure from 1'23 to 1'4 in length, and from "92 to 1'05 in 

 breadth. 



The eggs of this Cuckoo may be separated from those of the 

 Magpie, in the nest of which it usually deposits its eggs, by their 

 elliptical shape and reddish-brown markings, those of the Magpie 

 being of a pointed oval shape and the markings olive-brown. 



1. Spain (H. Saunders). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Aranjuez, Spain, 30tli April (.ff.&). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Aranjuez, 8th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Seville, Spain, Oth April {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Seville, 24th May. Seebohm Coll. 

 6. Near Seville (Z. H. Irhy). Seebohm Coll. 

 6. Malaga, Spain, 26th April. Seebohm Coll. 



2. New Castile, Spain, May (Lord Crowley Bequest. 



Lilford: Tristram Coll.). 

 1. Algeria, 20th May {H. B. Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram). 

 1. Batna, Algeria, 4th June (/r. 5. 7".). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Madracfjn, Algeria, 5th June Crow lev Bequest. 



(H. B. T.). 

 1. Ain Djtendeli, Algeria, 20th May Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



(0. ^Ivin). 



1. Ain Djendeli, 25th May (0. -S.). Salvin-Godman OoU. 



2. With two eggs of Pica pica, Anda- Seebohm Coll. 



lu.sia, 1st May {H. Saunders). 



