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its eggs, or the bird in whose nest they are deposited. J erdon suggests that it may possibly lay in those of 
King-Crows, to which it bears such a wonderful resemblance. He writes, “ One day, in Upper Burmah, 1 saw 
a King-Crow pursuing what at first I believed to be another of his own species ; but a peculiar call that the 
pursued bird w r as uttering, and some white on his plumage, led me to suppose that it was a Drongo-Cuckoo, 
which had perhaps been detected about the nest of the Dicrurus. Mr. Blyth relates that he obtained a pure 
white egg in the same nest with four eggs of D. macrocercus, and which, he remarks, may have been that ot the 
Drongo-Cuckoo.” It is extremely probable, I think, that it was. 
