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Cuculus pallidus, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 261 (1891) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 171 (1899) ; Sharpe, Sandal, ii. p. 159 (1900) ; 

 Camjjbell, Nests Sr Eggs Aicstr. Birds, ii. p. 564, pi. 16 (1901). 



The eggs of the Pallid Cuckoo are of a pointed oval shape and 

 exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. They are flesh-coloured, 

 very sparingly speckled with chestnut. Five examples measure 

 from -92 to -98 in length, and from -68 to -7 in breadth. 



1. AxxstriMa, {E. D. Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Australia. W. Radclifie Saunders, Esq. 



1. Oakleigh, Victoria {E. P. Seymour). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Western Point, Victoria, 19th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. North). 

 1. Melbourne, iMt Oct. (^. j; iV^.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Gippaland, Victoria. F.A.Philbrick,Bsq.,K.C.[P.]. 



1. Canterbury, New South "Wales, 20th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. (with 2 eggs of Ptilotis 



auricomis). 



Genus PENTHOCERYX, Cab. 

 Penthoceryx sonnerati (Lath.). 



(Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Cuculus sonnerati, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 233 (1878) ; Oates ed, Hume, 

 Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 382 (1890) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. 

 M- xix. p. 262 (1891). 



Penthoceryx sonnerati, Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 219 (1895) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 159 (1900). 



Two eggs in the Collection, attributed to the Banded Bay Cuckoo, 

 must be accepted with great doubt in view of Mr. Hume's statement 

 that the fragments of an egg-shell extracted from the oviduct of a 

 female of this species were pale bluish green and quite spotless. 



They are of a rather pointed oval form, smooth, and very glossy. 

 The ground-colour is white, and they are marked with brick-red. 

 In one specimen the markings are minute specks ; in the other 

 spots and small blotches. They measure respectively : -82 by -64 ; 

 •8 by -61. 



2. Coorg, S. India, 18th July. Hume CoU. 



Genus CACOMANTIS, S. Miill. 



Oacomaatis flabeUiformis (Lath). 



Cuculus cineraceus, Eamsay, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 463 ; 1869, p. 860, 



pi. xxvii. fig. 4. 

 Caeomantis flabelliformis, GaiM, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 618 (1865) ; 



Nvrth, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 244, pi. xiii. fig. 7 (1889) ; 



Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 266 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. 



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