11. CHALCococcrx. 295 



remainder. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 4, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Adult fenuile. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 

 (v7 inches, culmon 0-55, wing 4, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"7. 



Hah. Australia, Aru Islands, Timor, Elores, Lombock, Java ; 

 re-occurring in Malacca. 



5. Chalcococcyx lucidus. 



Shining Cuckoo, lat/i. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 528, pi. 23 (1782). 



Cuculus lucidus, Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 421 (1788); Vit/. ^- Horsf. 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 30 (1826) ; Tenon. PI. Col. iii. pi. 102. 



fig. 1 (1824) ; id. Tabl. Meth. p. 52 (1838) ; Gratj, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 218, no. 9042 (1870). 

 Variable Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. Sujrpl. ii. p. 250 (1801). 

 Sylvia versicolor, Lat/i. Ind. Orn. ii. Sii/tpl. p. 56 (1801). 

 Cuculus metallicus, Vi^.S; Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 302 (1827). 

 Chalcites lucidus, Z^iw. Traite,]). lo3 (\6'-U ) ; Bp. Consji. Vol. Zygod. 



p. 7 (1854). 

 Cucidus nitens, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 151 (1844). 

 Cucidus versicolor. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 4ft3 (1847). 

 Cucidus chalcites, ///. in Mus. Berol. ; Tcmm. Tabl. Mith. p. 52 



(1838). 

 Chrvsococcvx lucidus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 106 (1850); Horsf. Sr 



Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. L Co. ii. p. 706 (1856-.'j8) : Hn^ch, Neii- 



Guin. p. 159 (1865) ; Buller, B. A'tw Zealand, p. 77 (1873), 2nd 



ed.i. p. 132, pi. 15(1888). 

 Chrysocuccyx chaluites, Lic-fit. Nomencl. Av. p. 78 (1854). 

 Lamprococcyx lucidus, Cub. ^- Heine, Mm. Hein. iv. p. 14 (1862). 



Adult male. Vppcr parts bright metallic green, changing in 

 certain lights into purplish copper, especially on the crown and 

 back of the neck ; quills brown, glossed with more fiery copper than 

 the back ; forehead partially mottled with white ; upper tail- 

 coverts with white bars on tlie outer web of the outer feathers ; 

 tail above metallic coppery green, with a dark subterminal spot on 

 each of the feathers, followed on the inner web by a white spot. 



