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of Australia," when he states my son, Mr. A. G. Campbell, had 

 seen a fledgeling of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo {Cacomantis rubricatus 

 [flabelliformis]) in the open nest of the Pink-breasted Robin 

 (Erythrodryas rhodinogaster), and that he had also seen eggs and 

 young of the same species of Cuckoo in nests of the Rose-breasted 

 Robin {E. rosea). Reference to my son's original notes in The 

 Emu, vi., p. 125, will show that the Cuckoo referred to and stated 

 is the Square-tailed (C. pyrrhophanus [variolostts]) so far as the 

 Rose-breasted Robin is there concerned, while the skin of the 

 fledgeling Cuckoo in question from the nest of the Pink-breasted 

 Robin is now in the " H. L. White Collection," National Museum, 

 Melbourne. It is the " first record " of that Robin being a foster- 

 parent to the Square-tailed Cuckoo ; date, Dec, 1904. — ^A. J. 

 Campbell. Surrey Hills (Vic), 11/11/19. 



Novel Note. — This season a neighbour of my son, Mr. A. G. 

 Campbell, Kilsyth, invited his attention to a nest of the Yellow- 

 tailed Tit-Warbler (Acanthiza) situated about 10 feet high in an 

 apple-box (eucalypt). The nest contained a naked and very 

 young Bronze-Cuckoo, presumably plagosus, that had evidently 

 ejected the foster family, eggs or young. On inspecting the nest 

 my son found, besides the naked Cuckoo (which had one 

 eye opened), a newly-laid olive egg of a Bronze-Cuckoo, which, 

 from former observation of the nest, had been deposited that 

 afternoon between noon and 5 o'clock. Is it not strange that 

 any Cuckoo should deposit its egg in a nest already containing 

 young ? No doubt the egg would soon be ejected or otherwise 

 destroyed. — A. J. Campbell. Surrey Hills (Vic.) 



Correction. — The mention on page 133, The Emu, vol. xix., 

 part 2, October, 1919, of Notornis mantelli, referred to the 

 Takahe, a gigantic form of Moor-Hen, similar in colour of plumage 

 to the Pukeko (Purple Gallinule, Porphyrio), of which only four 

 specimens have been obtained. The latest name of the bird, 

 according to Hutton and Drummond, is Notornis hochstetteri, and 

 the Maori name, Takahea. The only albino bird that I find 

 recorded for this district on going through very extensive records 

 is an albino native Pigeon. — R. Stuart-Sutherland, R.A.O.U. 

 Lighthouse, Puysegur Point, Invercargill, N.Z., 24/11/19. 



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Capt. S. a. White and Dr. J. A. Leach have l)ecn informed 

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