182 Mr. W. B. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



*' A few examples of this Cuckoo were met with occasionally. 

 They frequented posts and stumps of trees in the clearings 

 around the camps. They uttered no call, and were by no 

 means wild." — C. H.B.G. 



*Cacomaiitis variolosus. 



Cacomantis variolosus Horsf. ; Shelley, Cat. xix. p. 272 

 (1891) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 489 (1913). 



A young male is recorded from the Setakwa River, ch- 

 ained in June. 



Cacomantis excitns. 



Cacomantis excitus Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xiv. p. 436 

 (1907). 



a. J . Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 18th Feb. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



This interesting Cuckoo was met with a little higher up 

 the Utakwa River than C. castaneiventris, of which it is, 

 perhaps, a larger representative form in the high mountains. 

 Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, who enumerate several 

 examples of this species (op. czY.), mention a nestling obtained 

 on Mt. Knutsford at 11,000 ft. 



This species is new to the British Museum. 



• Cacomantis castaneiventris. 



Cacomantis castaneiveritris Gould ; Shelley Cat. xix. p. 274 

 (1891) [part.] ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 489 (1913). 



a. ^ . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 27th March, 1913. 

 [C. B. K.-\ 



b,c. (? . Camp 6 B, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 4th & 5th 

 Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.] 



I am not fully satisfied that these three birds have been 

 riohtly referred to typical C. castaneiventris. Compared 

 with the type-specimen from Cape York and with birds from 

 the Astrolabe Mountains, they seem rather darker, especially 

 on the underparts, and slightly larger. 



The wing-measurements of the three are 115, 115, and 

 116 mm., as compared with 112 (type), 112, and 112 mm. 

 (Astrolabe Mts.). 



