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them. There is, however, no adequate series from S.E. Australia in England, 

 and 1 must therefore again appeal to Anstralian ornithologists to settle tlie 

 question. If they send me a good series from New South Wales, etc., I shall be 

 glad to give my opiuion. Mr. Hall has evidently most insufficiently stndied the 

 individual variation of the species, for several of his characters (as, for example, 

 the number of bars on the tail !) are the most variable ones. A bird from 

 Gracefield, Cranbiook (S. W. Australia) is a typical nocaelioUnnilinr. 



Mr. Tunney sent the following specimens : — 



?, Hall's Creek Road, E. Kimberley, 25. iv. 19i)2 (No. 4o4). 



c?, ? ?, 150 miles from Wyndham, Ord Station Road, 23, 20. v. 1902 (Nos. 

 455, 45G). One of these specimens is almost entirely white underneath. 



3, Ord River, 16. vi. 1902 (No. R. 160j. 



?, Avergne Station, Northern Territory, 20. vi. 1902 (No. R. 560). 



2 S6, 3 ? ?, South Alligator River, 22. x. 1902, 31. iii. 1903, and May 19ii3 

 (Nos. 811, 1232 to 1236). 



" Iris brown, legs creamy or brownish cream, claws dark brown or black. Bill 

 fleshy at base, dark brown at tip." 



Mr. Tunney says : " Found in hollow trees during the day. Can be procured 

 by striking tree with stone, when it flies out and is easily shot. Food found in 

 stomachs consisted chiefly of red ants. Not nniiierons." 



The sexes do not seem to ditfer conspicuously. 



122. Eurostopodus argus Hart. 



Eurostopiis ai-gits Hartert (ex Rosenberg, nomen nudum), Cat. B. Brit. Mux, xvi. p. G08 (Au.strnlia 

 and Aru Islands). 



S, Newly River, Northern Territory, 23. vi. 1902 (No. R. 559). 



S, Sonth Alligator River, 12. vi. 1903 (No. 1231). 



?, 20 miles west of Alligator River, 8. viii. 1903 (No. 1230). 



The S No. 1231 is strongly cinnamon-rufous on parts of the head, back, 

 scapulars and wing-coverts. Evidently these reddish featliers are due to youth, 

 being replaced in moult by the feathers of the well-known jilumage of the adult. 



123. Capriinulgus macrurus Horsf. 

 ?, Alligator River, 5. x. 1903 (No. 1613). 



124. Cuculus variegatus Vieill. 



C'lKidus riiripgriliix Vieillot, Xciir. Did. d'Uist. Nat. viii. (1817. — " II se trouve dans lAustralasie.' 

 We leainfiom Pucheran [Rrc. d: May. de Zu'il. IHoii, pp. 555, 556) that the types were brought 

 home by Maugi', from the voyage to the Southern Lands ('■ terres australes ") under Peron et 

 Lesueur, and that they are, like the majority of the specimens, presented by Mange as 

 coming from Timor. Most likely there is an error in the locality, and the types came from 

 Australia). 



1 believe we can use Vieillot's name varieyatit.s (though I admit that the 

 description is not at all convincing), if we accept Fucheran's statements, I.e. 

 How, on the other hand, Latham's name Cohtmha pallida came to be accepted 

 for this cuckoo, is iiicoinprehensible. It would seem that Messrs. Ciibanis k Heine 



