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Vigors for the C. cupreus Boddaert group, as Lampro- 

 morpha chalcopepla Vigors is a synonym of this latter 

 species. 



In the List Genera Birds, 1840, p. 57, Gray correctly 

 indicated C. cupreus Lath, as the type of Chrysococcyx 

 Boie, with which he synonymised Chalcites Less, and 

 Lampromorpha Vigors. 



In the Consp. Vol. Zygod, p. 7, 1854, Bonaparte 

 used Chalcites Less, for osculans, basalis ( =± chalcites), and 

 lucidus, Chrysococcyx Boie for African Bronze Cuckoos, 

 Lampromorpha Vig. for plagosus and xanthorhynchus . 

 It would appear that Bonaparte placed either lucidus 

 or plagosus without knowing them, as they never can 

 be separated generically, however much genus-splitting 

 may be done. 



In the Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 96, 1855, Gray 

 included 

 Chrysococcyx as noted above in 1840, and added 



? Chalcites Pr. B., 1854, nee Less., C. osculans Gould, 



? Lampromorpha Pr. B., 1854, nee Vig., C. plagosus 



Lath. 



The next attempt to deal with Cuckoos was that by 

 Cabanis in the Mus. Hein., Vol. IV., 1862. On p. 8, 

 Chrysococcyx is properly restricted to C. smaragdineus, 

 as synonyms being given Chalcites Less., 1831, and 

 Lampromorpha, Vigors, 1831. On p. 11, Lamprococcyx 

 is introduced for the group noted above by Gray as 

 Lampromorpha Bp., 1854 (nee Vig., 1831), and therein 

 included L. cupreus ( = cupreus Boddaert), L. klaasi, 

 basalis, and lucidus (inc. plagosus). Gray had indicated, 

 as type of his unnamed group, C. plagosus, and as 

 Cabanis considered that synonymous with C. lucidus, 

 he (Cabanis) designated the latter species as type of 

 his new group. 



In the Orn. Papuasia e Mol., Vol. I., 1880, Salvadori 

 very thoroughly worked through the Papuasian Cuckoos, 

 and therein recognised Lamprococcyx with type L. 

 lucidus as available for the Austral -Malayan Bronze 

 Cuckoos. In the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., 



