600 MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON [Nov. 16, 
1868, p. 387, where a mistake in the description occurs, the words 
upper surface should have been under surface, as the text will show. 
It is plentifully distributed over the whole Rockingham-Bay district, 
and regarded by the aborigines there as sacred and as having had 
something to do with their first coming to that part of the country. 
This species seems to be more active than other Sitée//e I have met 
with. They are usually found in small troops, and seem in a 
hurry; hopping quickly over the trunks, stems, and branches of the 
trees, ofttimes head downwards, creeping round and round the 
limbs, stopping only to disengage some insect from the bark; and 
calling to each other in a mournful monotonous cry, they fly off to 
repeat the same actions on some other tree. ‘They move along the 
forest at no mean pace, usually going in a direct line. The nest, 
like that of S. chrysoptera, is placed in an upright and usually dead 
fork of some high branch ; it is made of fine strips of bark with a 
large quantity of spider’s webs, with which small scales of bark 
resembling that of the branch in which it is placed are felted on so 
carefully as hardly to be detected even at a comparatively short 
distance; the rim is very thin, the nest open above and very deep. 
155. SITTELLA LEUCOCEPHALA. 
This very conspicuous species is far from being rare, and is 
usually met with in open forest country over the whole of northern 
Queensland as far as Cooktown. Its habits and actions and nidifica- 
tion do not differ materially from those of the other members of the 
genus. The notes of all closely resemble each other. 
156. CucuLUS CANOROIDES. 
This species was not rare at Cardwell during the months of 
March to May. I shot several of them in the moult and young 
plumage. They do not appear to me to differ much from the 
European C. canorus, either in the adult or in any of the rufous- 
tinted immature stages of plumage. I never heard them call. The 
young have a decidedly strong rufous tint pervading the upper 
surface. 
157. CACOMANTIS FLABELLIFORMIS. 
158. Cucu us, sp. inc.* 
Both species common from September to May; the latter I find 
identical with a bird received from India. 
159. LamPprococcyx PLAGOSUS. 
160. Lamprococcyx MINUTILLUS. 
Of the former, two specimens only were obtained, it does not 
appear to be very plentiful ; of the latter species only one specimen was 
shot, near Cardwell. I obtained from the nest of a species of Gerygone 
an egg resembling that of Z. plagosus, but much smaller, which,*it is 
very probable, is that of Z. minutillus. 
* I can find no description of this bird in any work. 
