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moderately glossy. The ground-colour is somewhat ^-ariable, being 

 generally of some shade of green, tinged with olive or brown, but 

 sometimes pale buff or stone-colour. The surface-markings, which 

 consist of specks, spots, streaks, and blotches, also vary in extent 

 and in shade of colour. Frequently they are densely distributed 

 over the whole shell; but oftener, -perhaps, they are most numerous 

 at the broad end, where they form a ca^ or zone. They vary in 

 colour from olive-brown to reddish brown. The underlying 

 markings are dull purple or lavender-grey, and are of the same 

 character as the surface-markings. 



Specimens measure from 1'08 to 1'29 in length, and from "89 to 

 •96 in breadth. 



Eudynamis cyanocephala {Lath.). 



Eudynamis flindersii, Oould, Handh. Birds Austr. i. p. 632 (1866) ; 

 Bennett, P. Z. S. 1878, p. -519. 



Eudynamis cyanocephala. North, Proo. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 654 

 (1887) ; (2) X. p. 215 (1895) ; id. Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 249 

 (1889) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 824 (1891) ; Sharpe, 

 Iland-l. ii. p. 165 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests ^ Egos Austr. Birds, ii. 

 p. 686, pi. 17 (1901). 



An egg of the Australian Koel is of an elongated oval shape and 



