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she was not carrying an egg, although the projecting eaves of the nest appeared to be brotcen 

 on the left side. The nest contained four fresh eggs of Mdiirus lamhcrti. On examining it at 

 home I found a fresh egg of C. hasalis embedded in the lining, and completely covered by feathers. 

 In another nest of M. lamhcrti, Mr. L. Harrison found a young C. hasalis, and while he was 

 examining it my son found a fresh egg of this Cuckoo on the ground beneath the nest. A nest 

 of Acroii-plialits amtralis., taken for me at Manly Lagoon by i\Ir. Kirkwood, on the idth Noxember, 

 iyo7, contained two eggs of this species and one egg of Chalcococcvx luisali^i. in all of which 

 incubation was nearly completed." 



Mr. J. Gabriel mforms me that the egg of this Cuckoo was found in the W'immera 

 District, X'ictoria, in the nest and with the eggs of Maluviis mdauotus. 



Mr. S. Robinson informs me that among many others in his collection he has an e.i;g of 

 Ldinpi'ococcyx basalts, talcen willi eaCh set of the following species: — Gerygonc iiiluivora, 

 Clitlioniiola sa^ittiita, Acanthiza apicalis, A. uyopygialis, Scricornis citrcogularis, S.magnirostris, Ncositfa 

 chvyopiera, Plilotis thi-vsaps, Mi-liornis sevicea, Slhioptci'ii hichcnovii, and .■Ef;intlia tcuiporalis. 



Mr. Thos. l'\ ;\ustin, of Cobborah Station, Cobbora, New South Wales, tells me he 

 has taken the egg of this Cuckoo at Barwon Park Station, Winchelsea, \'ictoria, in the nest 

 of Gcohasilcus clirvsorrltniis. 



From Glenorchy, Tasmania, Mr. Malcolm Harrison writes : — " I have many times found 

 the eggs of the Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo (Laniprocoiiyx hasalis) in the nests of Malni'iis 

 •^ouldi ( = M . cyaiiciis, lillis, iicc Gould) and Gcohasilcus chrysorvlwus, but the former is by far the 

 commoner host. I have ne\er myself taken more than one egg of any of the Cuckoos from any 

 one nest, but Mr. A. L. Butler took two eggs of Latiipivcociyx hasalis from a nest of Maliinis 

 f^ouldi, together with the eggs of the latter species." 



I'rom Bimbi, Duaringa, Oueensland, Mr. H. G. Barnard has sent me the following note : — 

 "1 have taken the eggs of the Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo from the nests of the following 

 species ; — Siiiicivniis hrcvirostris, Gcrygonc albigidans, Maltirus mclanoccphalus and Stictoptcra hichcnovii. 

 From the latter I took three eggs in one season, but in no instance have I seen the Finches 

 feeding the young Cuckoos." 



Mr. \i. L. Ivamsay, at W'ilgaroon in Western New South Wales, found an egg of the 

 Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo in the nest of Tiruiopw^ia lastaiintis, which also contained three 

 eggs of the latter species. 



h'rom Oueenstown, South-western Tasmania, Mr. Geo. F. Hinsby reports: — " Laniprococcyx 

 /'(isi(/;s saddles almost exclusively Maluvns longicaitdiis (= il/. n'(;;(c«s, Ellis, /(cr Gould) with the 

 task of incubating its egg and rearing its young. (July on one occasion have 1 fountl it in 

 the nest of another species, that of the Brown Tail {Acanthiza dicnicucnsis." ) 



From Adelaide, South .Australia, Dr. A. M. Morgan writes me as follows : — " Lampivcoccyx 

 hasalis is a common summer visitor. I have met with it in all parts of South Australia which 

 I have visited. At Laura it was a bird of passage only ; I ne\er met with an egg there, nor for 

 that matter with the egg of any species of Cuckoo. About Adelaide 1 have taken many of their 

 eggs, the favourite hosts being Ephthianura alhifivus and Malunis cyancus, Gould. Near Geelong, 

 where I took many of their eggs, liphlhiaiinra alhifnms was almost invariably the host. Captain 

 S. .\. White showed me a clutch of three eggs of Scisiira inqnicta, together with an egg of this 

 bird, taken in the Murray Scrub." 



Fledgelings are brown above with a bronzy-green gloss on the back, wings and tail, the 

 latter tinged with rufous at the base of the lateral feathers; ear-coverts brown, throat and fore- 

 neck fulvous-grey: remainder of the under surface dull white, tinged with fuhous on the sides 



