THE fllSDS OF SIKGAPOBE ISLAND 
This cuckoo is of parasitic habits ' laying its eggs in the 
nests of other small birds and leaving the foster parents to 
hatch and rear the young. 
The bird breeds in Singapore but the only nestling we have 
seen was taken from the nest of the common lora. 
The eggs of the Ceylon brain-fever bird have been found 
in the nests of tailor-birds > 
If the proportion of the sexes shown by a series of locally 
collected birds is any real indication of the matter it would 
seem that in this species the males greatly outmimber the 
females. 
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