FNSESSORES. 621 



Head, neck, and rump dark slate-grey ; back, wings, and 

 tail bronzy brown ; tail-feathers slightly tipped with white, 

 and with a row of small triangular-shaped spots on the 

 margins of their inner webs; breast grey, washed with 

 rufous ; under surface of the shoulder, flanks, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts deep rufous ; irides brown. 



Total length 8^ inches ; bill I ; wing 5 ; tail 4| ; tarsi ^. 



Genus MESOCALIUS, Cahanis et Heine. 



MM. Cabanis and Heine have established the above genus 

 for the bird I had called Chalcites oscidans, and as I have 

 adopted many of the new genera into which the Cuculidcs 

 are now divided, I have no alternative but to adopt this one 

 also. The only species of the form yet discovered is a larger 

 or more robust bird than the little Bronze Cuckoos, and it 

 also differs from them in its colouring. 



Sp. 382. MESOCALIUS OSCULANS, Gould. 

 Black-eared Cuckoo. 



Chalcites osculans, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xv. p. 32. 

 Cuculus osculans, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 463 



Cuculus, sp. 29. 

 Chrysococcyx osculans, Gould, Birds of Australia, vol, i. Introd. p. Ixi. 

 Misocalius palliolatus. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iv. Heft i. 



p. 16, note. 

 Black-eared Cuckoo, Colonists of Swan River. 



Chalcites osculans, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 88. 



Four examples of this species came under my notice during 

 the time I was engaged on the folio edition of the Birds of 

 Australia — one from Swan River, two killed by myself in New 

 South Wales, and one in the collection of the late H. E. 

 Strickland, Esq. ; since its completion a fine example has been 

 sent to me by G. Erench Angas, Esq., from South Australia. 



