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I TRUST that, although some time has elapsed since Professor Newton's very able paper on Cuckows' eggs appeared in NATURE, I am not too late to offer a few observations on it, the more so as I have always taken great interest in the breeding of the cuckow. I cannot quite agree with Professor Newton that cuckows' eggs as a rule are subject to great variety. The eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckow (Oxylophus glandarius) are certainly not subject to much variety; for in a large series from Africa and Spain I have found them closely resemble each other. Of our common cuckow (Cuculus canorus) abnormally coloured eggs have several times come under my observation, but I consider them as of very rare occurrence, and in several large series I have seen, but few have struck me as differing much from the usual type.
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DRESSER, H. Cuckow's Eggs. Nature 1, 218 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001218b0
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