4 cucrr.iii.E. 



Swallow, Black and White l-'aiitail. \\ hilt- the fcjllow iiit; birds Ikuc been noted feedin;^ youhl; 

 1 'alliil Cuckoos : — Riilous-breasted TliicUhead, Wllow-throatt-d I'riai liiid. and Lanceolated 

 I ioney-eater." 



Mr. (leo. I*', llinsby sends me the following,' notes from Oueenstown, South-western 

 Tasmania: — " As far as my experience f,'oes the I'allid Cuckoo lays in the nests of the followini; 

 species: — lirusli Wattle Bird l .iui'llohui iiicllivora l. Black-capped lloney-eater I Mclithicj^tus 

 niclanoccphaliis ), Stron.n-billed Honey-eater (M. validiroitns i. Spine-billed Honey-eater (Acanthi'i- 

 hvih-Inis diihius). Vellow-tbroated Honey-eater (/'tilntis tliivii:iilii ). and Tasmania Honey-eater 

 ( Licliiiimi auityalaiuimi I. The Pallid Cuckoo does not frequent the west coast of Tasmania." 



iMr. J. Gabriel writes me as follows from Abbotsford, N'ictoria : — " I found an egj; of the 

 I'allid Cackoo in the nest of the \\'liite-eared Honey-eater ( I-'tilotis Icucotis). The Cuckoo's eg}; 

 w'as laid first, and I waited for over a fortnight before the Honey-eater had laid her tw^o eggs ; 

 prior to doing so, howe\er, she had completely covered the Cuckoo's egg with a thick layer of 

 nesting material." 



From Broome Hill. South-western Australia, Mr. I'dui Carter sends me the following 

 note: — "As soon as the winter rains set in in North-western .\ustialia. the peculiar cry of the 

 I'allid Cuckoo could be heard all day. and frequently also through the night. Female birds 

 were rarely observed. A recently fledged bird was shot near Point Cloates on the 14th ] 'ecember, 

 1900. At Broome Hill they are one of the commonest species in the winter and spring months, 

 arriving in May. At Burelton, on the \'asse l\i\er. on the I'ltli December. 1902. a fledgling 

 was being ted by Ptilnii^ si'iuira, and another by Mclithitptiis ihh'nip>ii." 



Mr. Fdwin .\shby sends me the following note from South Australia: — "The Pallid 

 Cuckoo visits .Adelaide in considerable numbers in .\ugust and September, staying on well into 

 the summer. The eggs are apparently rare here, or are passed o\ er by collectors." 



From Cilenorchy, Tasmania, Mr. Malcolm Harrison writes me that he has taken the eggs 

 of the Pallid Cuckoo from the nest of the acclimatized Goldfinch ('Ciirdiiti'is eli'ffnns), and that 

 Mr. .'\. L.Butler has taken an egg from the nest of each of the following species : — I'usky 

 Wood Swallow ( Aiiamns sordidus), Garrulous Honey-eater (Myzantha iiai'iula ), and the Husky 

 Robin { Amaurcdryas vittata). Mr. Russell Young, Junr., has found it in the nest of the Brush 

 Wattle P>ird I Aiincllohia mcliiiin'a), and Mr. A. E. Brent from the nest of the Black-capped 

 Honey-eater f M(/!tliriftiis inildnnccphalns ). 



\\ ritinn of this species feeding its own young, Mr. M. 1 lai rison sends the following note :• — 

 " 1 believe the matter of the Cuckoo feeding its own young has been fully threshed out from 

 time to time, but it was c^nly on one occasion I ever witnessed it. On the 21st December, lyoo, 

 I saw a Pallid Cuckoo on the hill opposite \\ oodluny 1 louse, which is in the Midlands, and 

 about lialf way between Hobart and Launceston, feeding a young bird of the same species. 

 The young one could just fly, and allowed me to get w'ithin a few feet of it. The parent bird 

 seemed to make a great tuss over it, and kept up a peculiar whistling cluck. I distinctly saw 

 her feeding the young one, and no other bird seemed to have anything to do with it. The hill 

 in question at Woodbury is clothed with old She-oak trees ( Caniarina ), in the cracks of which 

 Aiiawus sofdidii^ nest freely, so it is probable that the foster parent was of this species." 



Mr. S. Robinson informs me that he has. among others in his collection, the eggs of the 

 Pallid Cuckoo taken with sets of the following species: — Laln^c tricolor, Mi-laiwdryns hicolor, 

 h'liipidiira nijifroiis, Myiagra iiitidci, Ptuliyccphala glaiicura and AnthocluTra cariinculnta. 



Dr. Lonsdale Holden, while resident at Bellerive, near Hobart, Tasmania, made the 

 toUowing notes: — "12th September, 1M95, saw a Pallid Cuckoo in a paddock opposite my 

 garden ; it was loudly calling, and flying from post to post, and on to the ground to pick up 

 insects. On the 23rd September, i.'^y/, I saw a Pallid Cuckoo for the first time this season ; it 



