of the Genus Eudynamis. 341 



p. XXX. no. 3 (1801), ex Lath., Syn. Supp. ii. pp. 137, no. 8, 

 " New Holland," $ adult vel S adolesc. 



E. flindersi (Lath.), Vigors & Horsf., Linn. Tr. xv. p. 305 

 (1828), ex Lath., Gen. Hist. iii. p. 308, no. 63, '' North Coast 

 of New Holland," $ vel 6 adolesc. 



E. orientalis (L.), Vigors & Horsf. t. c. p. 304, "New Hol- 

 land," 6 adolesc. 



E. australis, Swains., An. in Menag. p. 344, no. 189, " Aus- 

 tralia," S adult. 



Hah. New South Wales, Queensland, West Australia (Gould). 



Latham^s " Blue-headed Cuckoo " must certainly have been 

 a Eudynamis ; and as only one species is known to exist in 

 Australia, I give the title founded on it precedence over his 

 subsequent designation bestowed on a specimen obtained on the 

 north coast by Captain Flinders, the type of which still exists 

 in the British Museum. 



A specimen of an adult male from Queensland in my collec- 

 tion possesses one bright rufous secondary quill, as observed by 

 Mr. Vigors in Mr. Caley's example ; only my specimen is other- 

 wise in full black livery. 



The difference between the plumage of the female and young 

 of the Australian and Lidian birds {E. honorata) is very striking. 

 The female of the Indian species never has the black head and 

 nape, the broad dark bands from the angles of the mouth, and 

 the pale and almost immaculate fulvous breast we find in the 

 Australian Koel. In other respects the markings, in shape, 

 colour, and combination, are perfectly different. The type- 

 specimen of E. flindersi displays so anomalous a phase of colour- 

 ing that I venture to surmise that it belongs to a second Aus- 

 tralian species. 



5. Eudynamis orientalis (L.), ex Briss. iv. p. 140. no. 18, 

 " Ind. Orient." j adult. 



C.punctatus, L., ex Briss. t. c. p. 134, no. 14, "Ind. Orient." 

 2 vel S adolesc. 



E. picatus, Miiller, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Land. 

 & Volkenk. p. 176, " Amboyna," S adolesc. plum. mut. [Jide 

 Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bas, Cuculi, p. 19). 



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