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All the upper surface slaty grey ; inner webs of the prima- 

 ries broadly barred with white ; tail-feathers dark violet- 

 brown, with a row of oblong spots of white, placed alternately 

 on either side of the stem, and slightly tipped with white ; 

 the lateral feathers have also a row of white spots on the mar- 

 gin of their inner webs ; chin and breast light grey ; all the 

 under surface buffy white, crossed by bands of black ; irides, 

 bill, and feet oranger. 



Total length 13 inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 7f ; tail GJ ; tarsi f . 



Genus CACOMANTIS, Miiller. 



This genus was founded for the Cucultis flavus of Gmelin, 

 a form which is freely represented in Australia, where there 

 are at least four species, some inhabiting the southern, and 

 others the western and northern parts of the country. 



Sp. 378. CACOMANTIS PALLIDUS. 



Pallid Cuckoo. 



Columha pallida, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 270. 



Cuculus inornatus, Vig. and Horsf. iu Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 297. 



albostrigatus, Vig. and Horsf. lb., p. 298, young. 



variegatus et cinereus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom.viii. 



pp. 224, 226. 

 Cacomantis inornaius, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. i. p. 103, Caco- 



mantis, sp. 1. 



cinereus, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 6. 



Heteroscenes pallidus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein., Theil iv. Heft 1. p. 26 



ocddentalis, Cab. et Hein. lb., Theil iv. Heft. 1. p. 27, note. 



Dju-dur-ruu, Aborigines of Western Australia. 

 Greater Cuckoo of the Colonists. 



Cuculus inomatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 85. 



The southern portion of Australia generally, and the island 

 of Tasmania, are inhabited by this species of Cuckoo ; to the 

 latter country, however, it is only a summer visitant, and a 



