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2. "With four eggs of P. pica, Anda- Seebohm Coll. ' 



lusia, 3rd May {H. 8.). 

 4. With three eggs of P. pica, Aran- Seebohm Coll. 



juez, Spain, 29th April (H. S.). 



Coccystes coromandus {Linn.). 



(Plate II. fig. 4.) 



Coccystes coromandus, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 249 (1878) ; Oates ed. 

 Hume, Nests Sr Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 391 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xix. p. 214 (1891) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 

 p. 226 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 170 (1899) : Sharpe, 

 Sand-l. ii. p. 165 (1900): 



An egg of the Eed-winged Crested Cuckoo, taken by Mr. Valentine 

 Irwin, from the oviduct of a female in Tippera, is spheroidal in 

 shape, smooth, very glossy, and of a plain pale blue colour. It 

 measures 1-03 by -88. 



1. Tippera ( V. Irwin). Hume Coll. 



Coccystes jacohinus {Bodd.), 



(Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Coccystes jacobinus, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 158 (1875- 

 84) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 246 (1878) ; Oales ed. Hume, Nests Sr 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 388 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. 

 p. 217 (1891); Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 225 (1895); 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 170 {\S&Q); Sharpe, Hand-l.n.^.\55 

 (1900) ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 23. 



The eggs of the Pied Crested Cuckoo are usually deposited in 

 India in the nests of the various species of Babblers {Argya and 

 Crateropus), the eggs of which birds they closely resemble in size and 

 colour. The Cuckoo's eggs are of a spheroidal or broad elliptical 

 shape, very smooth and glossy, and of a dark blue colour. The 

 eggs of the Babblers are almost invariably of a pointed oval shape, 

 and the Cuckoo's eggs may generally be separated from them by their 

 shape. They measure from -88 to 1-02 in length, and from -72 

 to -82 in breadth. 



