Recently published Ornithological Works. 185 
Chagpore, and the Neilgherries. Mr. Stuart Baker has seen 
about 40 Indian specimens of its eggs. A list of 20 species 
of Passeres in which its eggs have been found is given. The 
egg of C. saturatus has also been obtained, but is much 
scarcer than that of C. canorus ; it is white or very slightly 
speckled, and two coloured figures are given of it on plate i. 
Of both the tw'o other Indian species of true Cuckoo 
(C. poliocephalus and C. micropterus) authenticated eggs 
have also been obtained, and that of the latter is figured on 
plate ii. It is pale blue, but in some examples a few specks 
are visible. 
Of Hierococcyx nisicolor the eggs are quite different, being 
short and stumpy, and varying from dark brown to olive, but 
those of H. sparverioides are again of a uniform pale blue. 
The known eggs of the species of Cacomantis, Penthoceryx , 
Chrysococcyx 3 Surniculus , Coccystes , and Eudynamis are all 
fully discussed by Mr. Stuart Baker in Parts II. and III. of 
this series of excellent papers, and many interesting eggs are 
figured and described. In Part IV. some additional notes 
are given, and the extreme abundance of our common 
Cuckoo in the Khasia Hills is insisted upon. In the spring 
of 1907 at Shillong the author had brought to him no less 
than 59 eggs of Cuculus canorus ! In Part Y. (1908) 
Mr. Stuart-Baker descants on an undoubted blue egg of 
Cuculus canorus , and shews that a remarkable egg found in 
a nest of a Sun-bird (JPthiopyga scherice) must have belonged 
to Chrysococcyx maculatus. 
23. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses in 1907. 
[Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1907. 25de Aarsberetiling om danske 
Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vid. Medd. fra d. nat. Foren. Kbhvn. 
1908.] 
This is the twenty-fifth annual report of Herr Winge’s 
series of papers upon the birds obtained and observed at the 
lighthouses which surround the coast of Denmark. In 1907 
1738 specimens were forwarded to the Cophenhagen Museum 
and referred to 79 species, while the whole number of birds 
observed was estimated to be over 8000. The species of 
