2 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



Sparnnan in his original description* does not give the type locality 

 of his Cuculus taitensis, but this has been fixed by Rothschild and 

 Hartert t as Tahiti. Cuculus lahitius Gmelin * is assigned by the de- 

 scriber to the Society Islands. Mathews, § moreover, has designated 

 Tahiti as the type locality. Vieillot |l does not state where the material 

 upon which he founded his Cuculus perlatus was secured, but this again 

 is fixed by Mathews (1. c. ) as Tahiti. Cuculus fasciatus of Forster IT 

 comes from Huaheine and Otaheite. It also is assigned definitely to 

 Tahiti by Mathews (1. c). The type of Eudynamys cuneicauda Peale 

 (which is preserved in the U. S. National Museum) comes from Ovalau 

 in the Fiji Islands. It is an immature individual of U. t. taitensis. No 

 other names seem to have been applied to these cuckoos. 



In separating the form from New Zealand an adult cuckoo from Funa- 

 futi Atoll in the Ellice group, an immature bird from the Samoan Islands 

 and Peale's type from Ovalau in the Fiji group have been taken as repre- 

 senting U. t. taitensis. It seems probable that with more material other 

 races will be apparent from Polynesia where these cuckoos have a wide 

 range and where they are stated to be resident in many localities. 



*Mus. Carlson., II, 1787, No. XXXII. 



+ Nov. Zool., XII, 1905, p. 258. 



X Syst. Nat., I, Pt. 1, 1788, p. 412. 



$ List of Birds of Australia, London, 1913, p. 321. 



II Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., VIII, 1817, p. 232. 



VDescr. An., 1844, p. 160. 



