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shading into the same colour as the breast towards the quills ; quills 

 barred on their inner webs with white : iris brown ; bill blackish ; 

 legs brown. Total length 12 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 7'7, tail G-8, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Immature. Upper parts, especiallj- the back of the neck, mottled 

 with rufous ; sides of the head striped with buff and dark brown ; 

 underparts occasionally, but rarely, more or less barred. 



Nestlinrj. Forehead and front of crown dark brown ; remainder 

 of the upper parts buft' and white, boldly mottled with dark brown ; 

 rump and upper tail-covcrts more regularly marked with dark brown 

 centres to the feathers ; quills and tail-feathers brown, with pale 

 tips and partial bars ; sides of the head and the throat dark brown, 

 partially mottled with buff and white ; remainder of the underparts 

 much whiter, with somewhat regular patches of brown ; under 

 wing-coverts buff; under surface of the quiUs brown, partially 

 barred with white. Total length 8 inches, wing 4-6. 



Hab. Probably confined to Australia ; but possibly ranging into 

 the Austro-Malayan subregion, as the t3pe of Cuculus poliogaster, 

 S. Miill., in the Leyden Museum, is labelled " Ternate (Forsten)." 



a. S ad.; b. $ 



imm. sk. 

 c, d. (S ad. sk. 



e,f, (J- Ad. sk. 

 Ti. Ad. sk. 

 », k. Imm. sk. 

 Z, m. Ad. ; n. 



Imm. sk. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p-^w. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 X. Ad. sk. 



y. Pull. sk. 



s. $ ad. sk. 



a'. cJ ad. sk. 

 V. Ad. f^k. 



Tasmania. 



Tasmania. 



Melbourne. 



Adelaide. 



S. Australia {J. Gould). 



New South Wales. 



Sydney. 

 Queensland. 



Antarctic Expedition. 



C. G. H. Lloyd, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.I. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale CoU. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 



H. 



Capt. Bowyer Bower 



N.W. Australia ( W. 



Bowyer Boiver). [P-]- 



Near 'Salt River, W. Aus- J. Gould, Esq. [C. 



tralia, Oct. 17. 

 Near Freman tie, W. Australia, J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



July 29. 

 Australia, May 28. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



Australia. Lady Carrington [P.]. 



c', d . Imm. et pull. Australia. 



sk. 

 e' . Ad. sk. Australia. 



/■'. Juv. sk. Australia. 



g\ Skull. New South Wales. 



10. Cuculus sonnerati. 



Seebohm CoU. 



Linnean Soc. (Type of 



C. inornatus?) 

 Linnean Soc. (Type of 



C. albostrijjatics.) 



Le petit Coucou des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 211 (1782). 

 Cuculus sonnerati, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 215 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



ix. ]). Ill ri815) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1334 (1823) ; Blyth, J. A. 



8. Beny. xi. p. 906 (1842), xiv. p. 204 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 464 (1847) ; Layard, Ami. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. 2nd ser. 



