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January 25th, 1915. A good series of the pallid cuckoo, 

 Hetroscenes pallidus, from the Museum was shown, bearing out 

 Captain White's contention that the grey bird is the male, not 

 the adult of both sexes, and the spotted bird is the female, not 

 the young, vide "South Australian Ornithologist," vol. II., 

 part 1. 



Cacomantis pyrroplianus variolosus — The eastern square- 

 tailed or brush cuckoo. — Two males were grey, while the only 

 female available was rufous. This would seem to bear out 

 the same theory that the male is grey and the female rufous. 

 The rufous bird until now has been thought to be the young. 



February 26th, 1915. Mr. Ashby exhibited a specimen of 

 Rallus pectoralis, the slate-breasted rail, taken in Coromandel 

 Valley. Although Mr. Mathews gives this bird as inhabiting 

 South Australia members had rarely come across it near Ade- 

 laide. The same member also showed a specimen of the pink- 

 breasted robin, Erythrodryas rodinogaster inexpecta, from 

 Mount Dandenong, Victoria. Although fully developed and 

 apparently breeding, it had only the faintest tinge of pink on 

 the breast. It was observed feeding in the tops of the 

 highest gum trees, some two hundred feet from the ground. 

 Hitherto members have always expected to find robins in un- 

 dergrowth or low scrub. A series of Neochalcites basalts, the 

 narrow-billed bronze cuckoo, from the Museum was shown, 

 and although there was considerable diversity of the amount 

 of colouration it did not seem to characterise either locality 

 or sex. A series of Lamprococcyx plagosus, the bronze cuckoo, 

 from the Museum was exhibited, also from Capt. White's col- 

 lection. The amount of rufous on the tail varied considerably, 

 but the members could not see any justification for separating 

 them into three subspecies. Members also thought that the 

 separation of Neochalcites and Lamprococcyx into two genera 

 was not correct, with the exception of Capt. White, who con- 

 sidered that we ought to have Mr. Mathews' reason for so do- 

 ing before criticising his work. 



Another New Bird for Australia. 



By S. A. White, M.B.O.U. 

 Acanthiza marianae sp. n. — Everard Range Tit: — 

 All upper surface ( with the exception of tail coverts!, 

 bluish grey; feathers of the forehead tipped with white, those 



