Table 1.

The clutch size and composition at large-billed gerygone nests already parasitized by little-bronze cuckoos at the time of subsequent parasitism, and the egg that was removed by the latter cuckoo. (In most cases, nests had been restored to natural clutch composition after use in our experiment (n = 10, see main text), but some nests were multiply parasitized whilst still containing one or more model eggs (n = 3). At four nests, we were unable to ascertain which of two to three candidate clutch variations was present at the time of second parasitism, and egg removals for these nests are listed accordingly.)

no.	egg removed	clutch size	clutch composition (egg types)
1	cuckoo	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
2	cuckoo	2	one cuckoo + one gerygone
3	gerygone or none	4 or 3	one cuckoo + one gerygone + both models, or one cuckoo + both models
4	none	3	two cuckoo + one gerygone
5	gerygone or high luminance model	4	one cuckoo + one gerygone + both models, or one cuckoo + two gerygone + low luminance model
6	cuckoo	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
7	cuckoo	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
8	gerygone	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
9	cuckoo	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
10	gerygone	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
11	gerygone	4 or 3, or 2	one cuckoo + three gerygone or one cuckoo + two gerygone or one cuckoo + one gerygone
12	cuckoo	3	one cuckoo + two gerygone
13	gerygone or high luminance model	3	one cuckoo + both models or one cuckoo + one gerygone + low luminance model