Of the salmon-pink type some specimens in their coloration resemble eggs of Dicrurus longicaudatus and some of our Goatsuckers, while of those with the greenish-white ground-colour some strongly recall the eggs of lanius lahtora.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
"The southern limit of lanius nigriceps is interesting and remarkable.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Down in those places this lanius was the Common Shrike, but south and west of Ummerkuntuk all the Shrikes disappear more or less, and L. nigriceps entirely."
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume