The Cuckods Egg 
of Chaffinch matches Wagtail's eggs ; No. 187 in Nightingale's nest matches 
House- Sparrow's (very variable) eggs. 
Colour-matching. 
Good 
11 Meadow-Pipit 
Wagtails 
Orphean - Warbler 
Garden- Warbler 
Red-Start 
Robin 
Sedge- Warbler 
Barred- Warbler 
Aquatic-Warbler 
Whitethroat 
,,,, , i-sp. Saxicola 
Wheatear j,/jeianoleuca 
Pied-Flycatcher 
Hedge-Sparrow 
Total 39 
Fair, or within limits of colour- 
variation of egg of species 
45 Meadow- Pipit 
19 Wagtails 
11 Tree-Pipit 
7 Reed- Warbler 
6 Robin 
5 Blackcap 
4 AVhitethroat 
2 Marsh-Warbler 
2 Sedge- Warbler 
2 Red-backed-Shrike 
1 Lesser-Grey-Shrike 
1 Lesser-Whitethroat 
1 Tree-Sparrow 
1 Common-Bunting 
1 Sky-Lark 
1 Crested-Lark 
Total 109 
Not matched nor within limits 
of colour- variation of egg 
17 Wren 
19 Hedge-Sparrow 
11 Robin 
12 Yellow- Ammer 
13 Reed- Warbler 
4 Garden-Warbler 
6 Meadow-Pipit 
4 Tree-Pipit 
5 Willow-Warbler 
Greenfinch 
Chaffinch 
Linnet 
Pied-Wagtail 
Blackcap 
Red-Start 
Lesser-Whitethroat 
Nightingale 
Wood-Warbler 
Spotted-Flycatcher 
2 Sedge- Warbler 
2 Red-backed-Shrike 
1 Woodchat-Shrike 
1 Rock-Pipit 
1 Sky-Lark 
1 Crested-Lark 
1 Goldfinch 
1 House-Sparrow 
1 Common-Bunting 
1 Cirl-Bunting 
1 Great-Reed-Warhler 
1 Marsh-Warbler 
1 Grasshopper- Warbler 
1 Dartford-Warbler 
1 Barred-Warbler 
1 Wheatear 
1 Orjjhean-Warbler 
1 Chifichaff 
1 Fire-Crested- Wren 
Total 140 
The appended table of colour-matching gives in a concise form the more 
impoi'tant numerical facts. The total number of successes, complete or partial, 
in colour-matching is so great, nearly 51"47o of the whole series examined, that 
mere chance is impossible as an explauation. Moreover, the accuracy with which 
highly remarkable Cuckoo's eggs are deposited in appropriate clutches is so 
