Brood Parasitism on Two Tailorbird Hosts (Orthotomus spp.) by Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus)
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Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China,① Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China; ② College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China

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    During the breeding season from March to July in 2012-2014, two nests (1.4% of parasitism rate, n=142) of the Mountain Tailorbird (Orthotomus cuculatus) and one nest (10%, n=10) of the Dark-necked Tailorbird (O. atrogularis) were found to be parasitized by the Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) in Nonggang area, Guangxi, Southwestern China. The Mountain Tailorbird was firstly recorded as host species by Plaintive Cuckoo, and both the two tailorbird species were firstly recorded as Plaintive Cuckoo hosts in China. The egg mass and volume of the Plaintive Cuckoo were significantly larger than those of the two tailorbird hosts. Spectra analysis of egg reflectance showed that both background color and spot markings of the cuckoo eggs were much different from its two tailorbird hosts.

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HUANG Qiu-Li, WANG Long-Wu, YANG Can-Chao, LIANG Wei. 2015. Brood Parasitism on Two Tailorbird Hosts (Orthotomus spp.) by Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus). Chinese Journal of Zoology, 50(5): 790-794.

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  • Received:January 30,2015
  • Revised:September 05,2015
  • Adopted:August 24,2015
  • Online: September 16,2015
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