OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Vn.— EGGS OF CACOMANTIS INSPERATUS, GOULD 



The eggs of the Brush Cuckoo of Gould's folio edition of the 



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" Birds of Australia " were unusually common last season on the 

 highlands of the Milson's Point Railway Line. Mr. A. A. John- 

 ston took no less than seven eggs in as many nests of Rhipidura 

 alhiscapa. One nest four feet from the ground that he had to lift 

 the bird off, revealed two eggs of the Brush Cuckoo, and one egg 

 of RhipidxLva alhiscapa. This was on the 24:th November, 1906. 

 The nest of this pair of birds he took again on the 9th January, 

 1907, when it contained two eggs of the White-shafted Fantail 

 and one egg of the Brush Cuckoo. On the 5th January, 1907, he 

 took a nest of Malnrus lamberti with two eggs, also an egg of the 

 Brush Cuckoo, which is the first time I have known the egg of 

 this Cuckoo to be found in the nest of this species. Four fresh 

 eggs were taken from a nest of the same pair of birds on the 16th 

 January, and two eggs of Lambert's Superb Warbler from the third 

 nest of this pair of birds, on the 29th January, 1907, also an egg 

 of the Brush Cuckoo. On the 18th November, 1906, Mr. Johnston 

 took a nest of Myiagra vnbeoula, containing two eggs of that 

 species, also an egg of the Brush Cuckoo. 



As I have pointed out in " The Ibis,"' the Cacomantis 

 insperatus of Gould, agrees with Latham's description and figure 

 of Ciiculus Jiabe/li/ormis, but not the species, the latter name has 

 been applied by writers in general. 



Alfred J. North. 



1 North— Tlie Ibis, 1906, p. .53. 



