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who has met with it would advise me when and where 

 it was published. 



In my Handlist, Species 405 is called Cuculus inornatus 

 Vigors and Horsfield, following North's note on this 

 subject in the Ibis (1906). Since then I have pointed 

 out (Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p. 16, 1911) that Latham's 

 name of C. pallidus must be resumed. 



With an extensive series in front of me I am able to 

 recognise an Eastern and Western form, the name of the 

 latter being C. p. occidentalis (Heine) (Mus. Hein., 

 Vol. III., p. 27, 1862). Examination of this series points 

 to two items of interest. From the dates I would con- 

 clude they only make short internal migrations, as I 

 have them from the same district from August to March 

 in the south and from May onwards in the north but 

 have also specimens killed in May and July in the 

 south-west. This is a matter which I would like 

 to see Australian field-ornithologists take up, and 

 by co-operation determine the times and routes of 

 migration. 



The other item is the plumage of the female. I had 

 assumed, as most other writers have, that the adult 

 female was like the adult male. I have not got a female 

 in fully-adult male plumage, and all my apparently 

 fully-adult breeding females have the upper-surface 

 mottled to a greater or less extent : the head, nape, 

 mantle, and wing-coverts may be described as dark 

 brown, streaked with buffy-red — in one specimen, perhaps 

 the most aged, the head is almost uniform : the under- 

 surface is always indistinctly mottled towards the 

 abdomen. From my series I can only conclude that 

 the female is never absolutely uniform above and below, 

 like the male. 



This is the species for which Cabanis (Mus. Hein., 

 IV., p. 26, 1862) proposed the genus Heteroscenes, and 

 which Salvadori classed in Cacomantis, and Shelley in 

 the genus Cuculus. 



I have indicated (Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p. 16, 

 1911) the rejection of Cuculus flabelliformis Latham as 



