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Cuckoo's Eggs
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Cuckoo's Eggs

  • THOMAS H. POTTS1 

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THE discussion raised by Prof. Newton on the coloration of cuckoos' eggs has been very interesting doubtless to many readers of NATURE; a mite of information from New Zealand, concerning one species of the Cuculidæ, may not be out of place.

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