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most conspicuous on the outermost of the two feathers ; their 

 inner webs are also crossed near the tip with a very broad 

 band of black, and have an oval spot of white at the tip ; the 

 outer feather on each side is baiTed alternately on the outer 

 web with dull bronzy green and dull white, and on the inner 

 one with broad decided bars of black and white, and tipped 

 with white ; bill black ; feet olive. 



Total length 5 J inches ; bill f ; wing 3 J ; tail .2-J ; tarsi ^. 



Sp.385. LAMPROCOCCYX BASALIS. 



Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo. 



Cuculus auraius, var., Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn., part iii. p. 1338. 



basalis, Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 179. 



• malayanus, Raff, in Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 286. 



chalcites, Blytb, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 1842, p. 919. 



Chrysococcyx basalis, Blyth, id., 1846, p. 54. 



chalcites, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. i. p. 106, Chrysococcyx , 



sp. 8. 

 Chalcites basalis, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 7. 

 Chrysococcyx malayanus, Horsf. and Moore, Cat. of Birds in Mus. 



East Lid. Comp., vol. ii. p. 707. 

 Lamprococcyx basalis, Cab. et Hein.Mus. Hein., Theiliv. Heft l.p.l2. 

 Chrysococcyx poecilurus, G. R. Gray, Proc. of Zool. Soc, 1861, p. 431 ? 



Chrysococcyx lucidus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 89 ; 

 lower figure adult, upper figure young. 



If the residents in the southern portion of Australia will 

 examine the little Bronze Cuckoos which aimually visit them 

 in summer, they will find that they are of two distinct species. 

 They bear a general resemblance ; but one will be found to 

 have a stouter bill than the other, and a nearly uniformly 

 coloured tail, the outer feather on each side only being barred. 

 This bird may be observed in all the southern parts of Aus- 

 tralia from east to west, and I believe in Tasmania. The 

 other species is about the same size, but has a narrower 

 bill, a lighter-brown head, a paler-coloured back ; the outer 



