430 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Order COCCYGES. 



Family CUCULID^, 

 Genus CUCULUS. 



Cuculus Linne, Syst. Nat. lOth ed. 1758, p. 110. 

 Type (by tautonyniy) : C. canoi'us Liiine, 



Cuculus optatus Gould. Oriental Cuckoo. 



Cuculus optatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1845, 

 p. 18 : Port Essington, North Australia, 



Synonym : — 



Cuculus saturatits Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 102. 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental visitor : one occurrence, 

 Lake Te Anau, South Island, February 1902) ; extra- 

 limital. 



C4enus LAMrROCOCCYX. 



Lamprococcyx Cabanis, Mus. Hein. vol. iv. 1862, p. 11. 

 Type (by original designation) : L. lucidus (Gmelin). 



Lamprococcyx lucidus (Gmelin). New Zealand Shining 

 Cuckoo. 

 Cuculus lucidus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1788, p. 421 : Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Cuculus nitens Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Liclit. 1844, p. 151 : 



Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 

 Chalcococcyx lucidus Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 101. 



Range: — New Zealand (breeding). Summer visitor to 

 both Islands and to the Chatham Islands but winter quarters 

 still unknown. {Cf. Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. i. 

 1912, pp. 15-16.) 



Genus URODYNAMIS. 

 J7roc?ynami5 Salvadori, Ornith, Papua, e Mol. vol. i. 1880, 

 p. 370. 



Type (by original designation): U. taitensis (Sparrman). 



