298 



CUCULID^. 



s, t. Ad. sk. 

 u. Ad. sk. 

 V. Ad. fik. 

 to-e'. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 ff', Ji . Ad. sk. 

 i . Ad. sk. 

 h' , S ad. sk. 



I', m . (S 2 ad. 



sk. 

 m'. 2 ad. sk. 

 o'. c? ad. sk. 



^/. c3" ad. sk. 



g', ?■'. Ad. sk. 



s , t' . Imm. sk. 



Queensland. 



Clarence River. 



Moreton Bay. 



Cajie York {Cockerell Hf 



Thorpe). 

 North Australia. 

 AVestern Australia. 

 Astrolabe Mts., New Guinea. 

 Blanche Bay, New Britain, 



June {G. E. Richards). 

 Noumea, New Caledonia, Aug., 



Nov. (E. v. Laijard). 

 New Ireland, Sept. 

 Russell Island, Solomons, 



Sept. (6-'. E. Richards). 

 Aola, Guadalcanar, May. 



Tasmania. 



Tasmania. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Purchased. 

 Gould Coll. 

 A. Goldie [C.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



C. M. Woodford, 



[C.]. 

 C. G. II. Lloyd, Esq. 



[P.], 

 W. W. Saunders, 



Esq. [P.]. 



8. Chalcococcyx malayanus. 



Cuculus malavaiius, Raffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 280 (1822). 

 Cuculus chalcites [jiec lU.), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 919 (1842), 



xii. p. 944 (184.3) ; S. Midi. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volk. 



p. 234, note (1839-44). 

 Cuculus (Chrysococcyx) lucidus {nee Gm.~}, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. 



xii. p. 944. 

 Chrvsococcvx basalis, "i Blijth, J. A. S. Beny. xv. p. 54 (1846); 



?'Horsf. > Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.L. Co. i'i. p. 707 (1856-58); 



Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 62 (1874) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Sac. 



2nd ser. i. Zool. p. 320 (1877) ; id. Ibis, lf<76, p. 416 ; Wardlaw 



Ramsay, App. to Ttceedd. Orn. Works, p. 656 (1881). 

 Chrysococcyx chalcites {nee III.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 73 



(1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 106 (1850) ; Sctat. F. Z. S. 1863, p. 209; 



ll'all. t. c. p. 484. 

 Chrysococcyx niinutillus, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 128; id. B. Austr. 



Suppl. pL 56 (1859). 

 Chrysococcyx malayanus, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 706 (1856-58)'; Walden, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 945. 

 Lamprococcvx niinutillus. Cab. l^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 15, note 



(1862) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 625 (1865). 

 Cuculus niinutillus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 218, no. 0043 (1870). 

 Lamprococcyx malaynnus, Hume ^- Davisoii, Str. F. vi. p. 503 



(1878). 

 Lamprococcyx basalis, Grant, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 191. 



Adult male. Similar to G. lucidus, but smaller, the upper parts 

 of a much more bronzy shade, the bars on the underparts brownish 

 bronze with no shade of green ; tail with more rufous, the white 

 markings on the outer feather partially edged with that colour, the 

 next pair with three black bars on the inner webs, alternating with 

 two rufous bars, and the following two pairs having a portion of 



