28 cuculid^f:. 



Islands. Captain Shelley includes Gould's types of Lamj^vocuccyx nissatus from Cape York, under 

 Gray's name of L. pffciliinn, but the only adult specimen in the Australian Museum collection 

 from that locality has the foreiiead and feathers over and behind the eye with distinctly 

 whitish niottlings, and is a typical L. malayaiun. ( )n what j^rounds l)r. E. F. Ramsay has t,'iven 

 L. parilnnis, in his " Tabular List of Australian Birds," ' so wide a ran^e over the northern and 

 north-eastern portion of the Australian continent, I know not. There is not a single specimen 

 of it in the Australian Museum from any part of Australia, nor ha\e 1 seen one in any collection, 

 but there are three specimens received from the late Professor F. \V. Hutton, of Christchurch, 

 New Zealand, and sent to him by Dr. H. O. Forbes, who obtained them from New Guinea. 

 Moreover, Lamprocflccyx rusiatus, which I.)r. Ramsay records from Cape York to Port I'enison, is, 

 I am sure, only the young bird of L. iiialayanin, which is easily discernible by the rufous margins 

 to the outer webs of the quills and upper wing-coverts, the rufous wash on the sides of the neck, 

 and the bronzy-green bars being fewer and wider apart on the under surface. Both specimens 

 under this name in the Reference Collection are from Rockingham Bay, where Ldiiiprocofcvx 

 iimlavmnis is the common species ; Dr. Ramsay, too, must have had some niisgi\'ings about 

 these specimens, for he iias labelled both Chahitcs. russn/iis. 



Gould's figure of this species, in his " Supplement to the ISirds of Australia," under the 

 name of ClirrsoiO(\'vx niliin/illiis, is a fairly faithful representation ol this Cuclcoo, but the head is 

 of a slightly more pronounced bronzy shade, and being copied from a dried skin lacks the bright 

 Vermillion orbital ring which is so marked a character in this species 



I first received the eggs of this Cuckoo, or rather which 1 attributed to tliis species at the 

 time, from Mr. J. A. Boyd of the Herbert River, and where subsequently I found that both 

 adults and young of L. »;(i/(y'((//«s are not uncommon. All were taken from the nests of the 

 " Flood Bird," or Large-billed Bush Warbler (Gcrygonc iiiai^iiiyostris). These eggs are elliptical 

 or elongate oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth and lustrous. They are of a rich 

 deep olivaceous-bronze, some approaching almost a chocolate-bronze in hue, and with a few 

 small dots on one end. Five specimens measure as follows: — (A) 078 x o'53 inches; (B) o-8 

 X o'53 inches; (C) 0-83 x o'55 inches; (D) o'jS x 0-5;! inches; (E) o'82 x o'54 inches. 

 The eggs of this species are easily distinguished from those of Laiiiprococcyx plimosiis by their 

 distinctly darker colour and glossy surface. 



Mr. Boyd has taken the eggs of the Little lironze Cuckoo from September until the end 

 of February, chielly from nests of Gfiygoiit- niiignirostrn o\'erhanging creeks, but on one occasion 

 from one built in an orange tree in his garden. 



O-erL-U-S ETJID'SriSr.^ii.lvIIS, Vu/ors and //or.-ijie/d. 



Eudynamis cyanocephala. 



FLINDEE'S COCKOO. 

 dundnt: cyaiioojihahis, Lath. fnd. Orn., Suppl. TI., p. xxx. (1^01). 

 Eudynamis Jlinderxii, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. IV., pi. 'Jl (1848). 

 Eudynainixjti}i.drn<i, Gould, Handb. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. <J32 (18().')). 



Eudynamis cyanocepliala, Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. .321 (1891) ; Sliarpe, Hand-1. 

 Bds., Vol. II., p. I(;.5 (1900). 



Adult male — Geneiyd colonr above, includiay ihe head, wings and tail glossy grcenish-hlne- 

 black, some of the scapulars and feathers on the centre of ihe back purplish (otvards their tips ; inner 



• Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 15 (1888). 



