(757) Lalage nigra davisoni Kloss.
THE NICOBAR PIED CUCKOO-SHRIKE.
Lalage nigra nigra, Fauna B. I., Birds, 2nd ed. vol. ii, p. 341 (part.).
Lalage nigra davisoni, ibid. vol. viii, p. 637.
The following note is given by Oates, but without any certainty as to where the nest was found, though he thinks it may have been at Camorta, in the Nicobars :—
“The eggs are quite of the Graucalus and Campophaga type but, perhaps, a little more elongated in shape. Very regular, slightly elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground greenish-white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and freckled over, most thickly about the larger end, with a dull, pale, slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some specimens faintly purple-grey. The two eggs I possess measure 0.85 (21.6 mm.) and 0.87 (22.1 mm.) in length by 0.61 (15.5 mm.) and 0.62 (15.7 mm.) respectively in breadth.”
Kloss has shown that the Nicobar bird is not quite the same as the Malay form, though I certainly could not separate them on the material available in the Natural History Museum when I was working on this genus.
757. Lalage nigra davisoni
BookTitle:
The Nidification Of Birds Of The Indian Empire
Reference:
Baker, Edward Charles Stuart. The nidification of birds of the Indian Empire. Vol. 2. 1933.
Title in Book:
757. Lalage nigra davisoni
CatNo:
757
Year:
1933
Page No:
306
Common name:
Nicobae Pied Cuckoo Shrike
M_ID:
18600
M_SN:
Lalage nigra davisoni
Volume:
Vol. 2
Term name:
id:
13893
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