The Banded Bay Cuckoo.
Cuculus sonneratii.

Lath., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 825; Hume, Cat. no. 202.

Eggs supposed to belong to this species, and found in the nest of Olocompsa fuscicaudata, are moderately broad ovals, distinctly pointed towards the small end. The shell fine, smooth, and with a faint gloss. The ground - colour white or nearly so, with ever so slight a pinky tinge, and they are in some cases very thinly sprinkled, in others more profusely adorned with specks, spots, and irregular hieroglyphic - like marks of a rather dull brick - red, which has at times somewhat of a brownish tinge. They measured 0.83 and 0.81 in length, by 0.62 and 0.61 respectively in breadth.

Fragments of an egg - shell extracted from the oviduct of a female of the Banded Bay Cuckoo, shot on the Nilghiris on the 19th May, 1874, are pale bluish green and quite spotless.