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Varying much in size, the eggs of the Australian Coucal range 

 from 1-60' to 1-31 in length, and from 1-29 to 102 in breadth. 



1. Australia, 16tli Dec. 

 1. Port Essington, Australia ( Wilson). 

 25. North Queensland, Jan. & Feb. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Gould Coll. 



W. Radcliflfe Saunder.?, Esq. 



[P.]- 



Centropus sinensis (Ste^Ji.). 



Centropus philippensis, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 450 



(1854). 

 Centropus rufipeunis, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 260 (1878). 

 Centrococoyx rufipennis, C. intermedius, & C. maxiuius, Oates ed. Hume, 



Nests I- Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. pp. 400-406 (1890). 

 Centropus sinensis, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 34-3 (1891) ; Blanf. 



Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 289 (1895) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 480 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 167 (1900). 



The eggs of the Common Coucal or Crow-Pheasant measure from 

 1'2 to 1'6 in length, and from 1 to 1"23 in breadth. 



