Fulton. — TJie Long-tailed Ciickoo. 145 



faculty of nest-building, save in a very rude, flimsy form, or 

 in a great combined clumsy structure in which a number of 

 females lay. Cowbirds and Cuckoos show all the stages 

 between true nest-buildiag and parasitism. Some of the 

 American Cuckoos and Cowbirds and our own and the Old- 

 World Cuckoos, having probably passed the stages of nesting 

 in common and of depositing their eggs in common "boarding- 

 houses," but retaining the habit of irregular ovipositing, find 

 it expedient, in order to be ready for the return autumn migra- 

 tion, to drop their eggs one by one into the nests of other birds. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES. 



(1) A History of the Birds of New Zealand (Buller), 2iid ed., vol. i., 



p. 129. 



(2) Ibid., p. 131. 



(3) Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. vii., p. 324. 



(4) A History of the Birds of New Zealand, p. 131. 



(5) Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. vi., p. 147. 



(6) Ibid., vol. xxiii., p. 219. 



(7) A Dictionary of Birds (Alfred Newton), pt. i., p. 120. 



(8) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds (Campbell), vol. ii., p. 589. 



(9) Ibid., p. 565. 



(10) Ibid., p. 585. 



(11) Ibid., p 570. 

 |12) Ibid., p. 570. 



(12a) Bird Life (Dr. A. G. Brehm), p. 156. 



(12b) Ibid. 



(13) A Dictionary of Birds (Newton), pt. i., p. 121. 



(14) Ibid. 



(15) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, vol. ii., p. 589. 



(16) Ibid., p. 588. 

 (16a) Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds (Allan Hume), pt. i., p 



(17) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, vol. ii., p. 567. 



(18) Ibid., p. 568. 



(19) Trans. N.Z. Insc, vol. vi., p. 148. 



(20) History of the Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 131. 



(21) Ibid., p. 136. I 



(22) Ibid. 



(23) Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. vi., p. 146. ^ 

 (23a) Letter from Mr. Elsdon Best, Ruatahuna, Urewera Country, 8th : 



October, 1903. I 



(236) Letter from Mr. J. C. Buckland, Akaroa, 1st November, 1903. i 



(23c) History of the Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 136. , 



(24) Ibid., 2nd ed., p. 1.35. j 

 (2.5) Letter from Mr. John Ross, Milford Sound Track, 12th February, 1 



1903. ! 



(26) Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. x., p. 200. 



(27) A Dictionary of Birds, pt. i., p. 121. 



(28) Ibid.,p 123. i 



(29) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, vol. ii., p. 585. ' 

 (.30) A Dictionary of Birds, pt. i., p. 130. ' 

 (31) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, vol. ii., p, 587. i 

 (.32) Ibid., p. 589. 



(38) Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xviii., p. 125. j 



(33a) Letter from Mr. A. Arthur, Lawrence, Otago, 17th September, ; 



1903. I 



10— Trans. ! 



