Brood Parasitism on White-bellied Redstart (Hodgsonius phaenicuroides) by Large Hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus sparverioides)
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College of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China,Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve, Suiyang 553300, Guizhou, 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 April to August in 2015, one case of White-bellied Redstart (Hodgsonius phaenicuroides) parasitized by Large Hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus sparverioides) was observed in Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, southwestern of China, and the cuckoo parasitism rate was 1/16 (n = 16). The parasitized nest, with one white Cuckoo′s egg and two Redstart′s eggs (Fig. 1), was found to be deserted by the redstart host. The Large Hawk-cuckoo egg was 6.09 g in weight and 27.73 mm × 20.20 mm in size, and two host eggs were 2.34 g and 2.40 g in weight and 20.05 mm × 14.94 mm and 19.95 mm × 15.09 mm in size, they were much different in egg mass and egg size (Table 1). Egg measurements by spectrophotometer showed that they were much difference in spectrogram. The Large Hawk-cuckoo egg was a typical non-mimetic parasitic egg because of its egg chroma and hude were much lower than those of White-bellied Redstart, however, higher in brilliance (Fig. 2).

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HUO Juan, SU Tong-Ping, YAO Xiao-Gang, YANG Can-Chao, LIANG Wei. 2016. Brood Parasitism on White-bellied Redstart (Hodgsonius phaenicuroides) by Large Hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus sparverioides). Chinese Journal of Zoology, 51(6): 1101-1105.

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  • Received:December 05,2015
  • Revised:July 10,2016
  • Adopted:June 16,2016
  • Online: November 28,2016
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