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Genus CHAETUBA. 



Cliaeliira Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. ii. p. 76. l><2li. 

 Type (hy subs, ilesig.) : C. pelagicu (Liiiin''). 



572. Chaetura caudacuta caiidacuta. 



IJirundo caudaculii L.itham, In(le.r Orn/t/i. Sii/)/>l. p. Ivii. 1801 : New South Wale.i. 



Synonyms : 

 Ilirundo fus'a Stephen-s, in Shaw's Gen. Znol. vol. x. p. 133. 1817 ; Xew South Wales 

 Chaetura aiislrali^ id., ih., vol. xiii. p. 76. 1826 : Xew South Wales. 

 Hirundo ciris Pall.os, Znogr. Roam. Asiaf. vol. i. p. 541. 1827 : Siberia. 

 Chaetura nnnrn/ilfra Swainson. Zoo!. IlJnx. ser. ii. pi. -12. 182'.* ; New South Wales. 



Spine-tailed Swift. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 402. 

 Range: Anstralia. E.'ctralimital. 



Genus AFUS. 



Apus Scopoli, /iilrod. IliM. Nut. p. 483. 1777. 



Type (liy raoiiotypy an<l tantonymy) : .1. iijuin (Linne). 

 573. Apus pacificus. 



Ilhiinilnjyanfim Latham, Imlex Oriiil/i. Siippl. p. Iviii. 18(11 : New South Wales. 



Synonyms : 



Ci/jiMelux amlmlix Gould, Prw. Zn„l. So,: (L,.,„l.) 18:«t. p. 141 (1840) : New South Wale.'*. 

 Ci/pneliis rilliilus Jardine .and Selby, ///».s. Omilh. vol. iv. trxt to pi. ?,\S. 1840: China. 



White-rnniped Swil't. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 403. 

 Range : Anstralia. Extnilimital. 



Order COCCYGES. 

 Famii.v CUCULIDAE. 



Genus CUCULUS. 



Ciii-iihia Linn^, Sysl. Nat. i>d. x. p. 110. 1758. 



Type (hy tantonymy) : C caxorus Linne. 



574. Cuculus optatus. 



Ciiculus optatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845. p. 18 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 



Oriental (Juckoo. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 404. 



liange : Northern Territory, North- West Anstralia, 



JVofe.— The forms of Cuoili/s raiioriis are so imperfectly understood that I have 

 been compelled to fall ba(d; ni)on the (ionldian name " <ij/tat/'.s" winch, given to an 

 Anstralian bird, is certainly applicable, whereas all the other names are more or 

 less nncertain. 



