THE BKONZE CXJCKOO 



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The Narrow-liilled Bronze Cuckoo, C. hnsaMs. — Australia, Tasmania, Aru 

 Islands to South Celebes, Java and Malay Peninsula. Total length 

 6.3 inches. Egg, iieshy white, speckled all over with fine pinkish red 

 spots, which become darker by age; .7 x .5 inch. 



The Broad-billed Bronze Cuckoo, C. lucidus. — Bast Australia, Tasmania, 

 New Zealand. Total length 6.5 inches. Eggs very pale olive, often 

 stained with brownish-grey, and measures .81 x .52 inch. 



"Victorian Naturalist." C. P. Kinane. 



Bronze Cuckoo (16 days old) to the right, being fed by foster parent (the Brown Tit). 



The Bronze Cuckoo, C. plagosus. — Australia generally, Tasmania, New 

 Caledonia, South New Guinea. Total length 6.2 inches. Egg, clear 

 olive-brown, slightly paler at the smaller end; the olive brown can 

 easily be removed by wetting, leaving a uniform light bluish shell, 

 .7 X .5 inch. 



The Little Bronze Cuckoo, C. malayanus. — All the Northern parts of 

 Australia, New Guinea, and Malay Peninsula. Total length 5.8 inches. 

 Egg slightlj' darker than C. plagosus, and measures .74 x .54 inch. 



The Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo, C. ■pcecilurus. — All the northern parts 

 of Australia, New Guinea to Timor and Moluccas. Total length 5.8 inch. 



