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sparingly speckled round the broader end with black and lavender. 

 It measures -8 by -6. 



1. South Island, New Zealand. Crowley Bequest. 



Chalcococcyx plagosus (Lath..). 



Lamprococcyx plagosus, Oould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 623 (186.5) ; 



Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 359, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 ; North, Nests Sf Eggs 



Austr. Birds, p. 246, pi. ix. fig. 13 (1889). 

 Chalcites liicidus, apud Ramsay, 1'. Z. S. 1865, p. 460 (pt.). 

 Chalcococcyx plagosus, /SAeZfey, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 297 (1891); 



Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 172 (1899) ; Sharpe, Sand-l. ii. p. 162 



(1900) ; Camphell, Nests & lags Austr. Birds, ii. p. 582, pi. 17 



(1901). 



The eggs of the Australian Bronze Cuckoo are of a regular oval 

 form, slightly glossy, and uniform brown or olive-brown in colour. 

 On very close inspection a few darker specks may be discovered at 

 the broad end of the egg. Eour examples measure respectively : 

 •68 by -5 ; -69 by -47 ; -68 by -17 ; -76 by -51. 



1. New South Wales. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Dobroyde, N.S.W., Sept. (E. P. Crowley Bequest. 



' Ramsay: Tristram Coll.). 

 2. New South Wales. Gould CoU. 



1. Belmore, N.S.W., 18th Oct. (with Crowley Bequest. 



3 eggs oi Acanthiaa chrysorrhoa). 

 1. Melbourne, Victoria. ' Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Yarra River, Victoria, 20th Sept. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 

 1. West Australia, Dec. (with 5 eggs Gould Coll. 



of Acanthiza chrysorrhoa). 



Genus COCCYZTJS, Vieill. 



The eggs of the Cuckoos of this genus are elliptical in shape and 

 almost devoid of gloss. They are plain white of various shades of 

 greenish blue or green. 



Coccyzns minor (Gm.).. 



Coccygus minor, Baird, Brewer Sg Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 482 



(1874). 

 Coccyzus minor, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 304 (1891) ; Bendire, 



Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 17 (1895) ; Salv. 8f Godm. Biol. 



Centr.-Amer., Aves, ii. p. 623 (1896); Nekrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p 172 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. p. 263 (1900) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 163 (1900). 

 The eggs of the Mangrove Cuckoo are of a pale bluish-green 

 colour. They measure from 1-2 to 1-31 in length, and from -87 to 

 •92 in breadth. 



4. Port Henderson, Jamaica, 1st Aug. Crowley Bequest. 



(Q. W. Field). 

 7. Jamaica (Field Cdl). Cro-wley Bequest. 



