Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests

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Avian eggshell coloration: new perspectives on adaptive explanations (2010, background): “Langmore et al. (2009) have shown that the dark eggs of Gould’s bronze-cuckoo Chalcites russatus are cryptic in the dark host nests which it parasitizes, whereas a congeneric bronzecuckoo species parasitizing host nests with greater ambient light levels lays mimetic eggs.”
Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts (2014, background): “Because the costs of brood parasitism accumulate throughout the nesting cycle (Davies 2011), this should slow the evolution of later-stage defenses relative to earlier-stage defenses, subject to evolutionary constraints (e.g., Rohwer & Spaw 1988, Langmore et al. 2009b, Grim et al. 2011).”
Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning (2011, background): “…defence, egg rejection and chick rejection in places and at times when parasitism is more likely (e.g. nest defence: Lindholm & Thomas, 2000; Røskaft et al., 2002; Welbergen & Davies, 2009; egg rejection: Brooke, Davies & Noble, 1998; Stokke et al., 2008; chick rejection: Langmore et al., 2009a).”
Review: an embryo's eye view of avian eggshell pigmentation (2011, background): “In addition eggs with black or at least very dark green pigmentation, as in the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae, or some Chalcites spp. cuckoos, are extremely rare (Eisenmann 1953, Schönwetter 1960 1992, Langmore et al. 2009).”