LAMFROCOrCYX. 



of the breast. Winj,' 2^4 inches. Immature birds are somewhat similar, but are larger, have 

 the rufous on the tail feathers more pronounced, and have a few widely separated brown bars 

 on the throat and sides of the breast. Win.i; 37 inches. 



In the neij,'hbourhood of Sydney I have taken fresh et,'gs from the middle of July until the 

 end of January, but Mr. F. A. Shelley found one at Roseville, in a nest containing three eggs 

 of the rightful owner {Miliums diistra/is) as late as the 20th February, 190S. 



Two nestlings of Lnniprococcy.x hasalis were taken by me on the morning of the 13th November, 

 1902, at Roseville, having had them under observation from about the time they were first 

 hatched, both being naked, helpless, callow young with eyes unopened, but at that early stage 

 of their existence the sole occupants of the nests of Malunis huuho'ti and Gcoluni/cus ve^uloides. 

 The entrance to the aperture of the nest of the latter species, in the thick trunk of a lofty 

 Eucalyptus, and almost on the ground, was so small that it was with difficulty I could draw the 

 young squab out of it. The other was taken from a nest of Malunis h}ml>ciii,h\\\\\. in a very 

 narrow grass-grown drain. Both were about twenty days old, and as usual the young Cuckoos, 

 judging by their ceaseless cries, were apparently suffering the pangs of hunger. 



Lamprococcyx malayanus. 



LITTLE BKONZE OUrKUU. 

 Curulus inidaijanuf:, Raffl., Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XITI., p. 286. (1822). 

 Lamjiruroccy.i- niiiinti/his, Gould, ]land-bk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 625 (1865). 

 C/irysococcy.r minutillus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol., Suppl., pi. 56 (1369). 



Clialcococcyj- malayiinus, .Shelley, Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 298 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. 

 Bds., Vol. II., p. 162 (1900). 



Lainpmcoi-rij.r ladayaiius, North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales (2nd ser.). Vol. IX., p. 41 (189-t). 



Adult male. — (leneral colour ahove, im-ludiin/ tin- irl^iys and Inil, mvlaUic bronze-qreeii, but of 

 a more pronoimced brim-y Imp, and a iimclt yrf.ater pjiAiit of rufous 011 the tail-feat/iers than L.\MPRO- 

 COCCYx LUCIDUS ichic/i if rcS'iiiblrs in colour, but nut in si:e ,■ centre nf the inner irebf: of the 

 primaries pale rufuus, irhitish near the edge: forehead ami featliers behind the eye mottled a-ith a:Iiile ; 

 cheiks !vhite, nntli blaekish-broion cross bars : ear-cocerts and ihmal and all the under surface and 

 under tailrorerts n-liite, with many brinf.y-yrfra cross-bars : bill black .■ legs and feel greyish-olive ; 

 iris re.ddish-brotvn : orbital ring hrigltt crinillion. Total length in tin' /iesh 6':.'5 inches, iving j-fj, 

 tail J-?, bill 58, tarsus tyi!. 



Adult fem.\le — Similar in plumage to the male. 



Distribution — Northern Territory of South Australia, Oueensland. 

 /nr^l I \i range of the Little Bronze Cuckoo in Australia, as represented by specimens in the 

 J- .Australian Museum Collection, extends from Port Essington in the Northern Territory 

 of South Australia to Port Denison on the eastern coast of Queensland, a specimen being obtained 

 in that far southern locality by the late Mr. J. Rainbird on the 1 2th September, 1863. Mr. 

 Kendal Broadbent procured specimens at Cardwell and Cape \'ork. I have also received a 

 spirit specimen in the flesh from Mr. J. .\. Boyd, when resident at Ripple Creek, Herbert River, 

 and who informed me that it was the common species in the district. 



In the " Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum," ■ Captain G. E. Shelley only records 

 one specimen from the Australian continent, and that is the type of Lamprococcvx minutillns 

 described by Gould from Port Essington. Of its e.xtra Australian range Captain Shelley mentions 

 the Malayan Peninsula, Java, Philippine Islands, Borneo, Flores, New Guinea and the Solomon 



* Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., VoL XIX., p. 299 (iSgi). 



