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further from that gentleman, we find that his suspicions were 

 founded merely on the circumstance of his having met with all 

 these birds in the same place and at the same period. Although 

 we have some doubt respecting our C. incertus being a distinct 

 species, we have little respecting the present bird, which seems 

 to belong to a different section of the genus from that in which the 

 preceding species are included. The wings are shorter and more 

 rounded, the tail also shorter and less graduated, and the tarsi are 

 more naked and more elevated. There are six or seven species 

 oîCuculus belonging to Australia and Africa, which form part of 

 the same section of the group, and which differ from the bird 

 before us only in their colours being bright and metallic. It is 

 the want of these colours chiefly that causes us to consider the 

 specimen before us as a young bird. In its general structure 

 it has the characters of the birds to which we allude, and which 

 in their young state are also without the shining tints of the 

 adult birds, although perhaps not so decidedly so as our present 

 species. 



Mr. Caley informs us that he met with the three last-described 

 species in the neighbourhood of Paramatta. They frequented 

 the green wattle-trees which were of low growth. They made 

 their appearance on the approach of winter; and it was Mr. Ca- 

 ley's opinion that they migrated southerly at the commence- 

 ment of spring. 



6. LuciDUS. C. cuprco-viridi nilescens, suhtus albidus cupreo- 

 viridi fasciatus, abdomine medio albo ; rectricibiis externis 

 maculis albis quatuor utrinque notatis. 



Fœm.? virescenti-fusca, subtus albida irregidariter fusco-fasciata. 



Cuculus lucidus. Gmel. Si/st. i. p. 421. Jio. 47- 



Shining Cuckow. Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 299- no. 49- pi- 56. 



Coucou éclatant. Temm. PL Col. 102./". 1. 



Mr. 



