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The Malayan birds included by Shelley are like 

 C. lucidus Gmelin, but it must be remembered that 

 when Raffles wrote all Bronze Cuckoos were more 

 or less known as C. lucidus. Until very recent 

 times the true C. lucidus Gmelin was not correctly 

 known, so that Raffles's allusion to C. lucidus is of 

 no value. 



Shelley's C. malayanus have the upper-coloration 

 deep green-bronze throughout and the inner webs whitish. 

 By no means could they be identified with Raffles's 

 C. malayanus and I suggest the acceptance of Salvadori's 

 action and place this name with a " ? " in the synonymy 

 of C. basalis Horsfield. In the Handl. Gen. Species 

 Birds B.M., Pt. II., p. 218, 1870, Gray unhesita- 

 tingly included malayanus Raffles in the synonymy of 

 C. basalis Horsfield, perhaps from examination of the type 

 itself. At any rate, even if it were acceptable for 

 the Malayan birds, it could not be used for Australian 

 ones, as these differ altogether. 



C. minutillus Gould approaches the Malayan birds 

 described by Shelley in the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 but differs in having little mottling on the forehead, 

 more green coloration, and in its entirely different 

 pattern of tail-coloration. In addition to the type, I 

 have examined two specimens in my collection from 

 Parry's Creek, North-west Australia, which agree 

 generally, but have the upper-coloration darker green 

 with the head tinged with purplish, and have much 

 closer barring on the under-surface. Though I have 

 criticised a series of these so-called C. malayanus from 

 various of the East Indian Islands, I have seen none 

 absolutely agreeing with these specimens. C. minu- 

 tillus Gould, must be retained in the Australian List. 



C. russatus Gould was described from Cape York, and 

 I have examined three of Gould's specimens from that 

 locality, marked as types, in the British Museum. These 

 cannot be confused with C. minutillus in any way, 

 inasmuch as they belong to the basalis group, while 

 C. minutillus is referable to the lucidus group. There is 



