44 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



Greenish bronzy black ; shafts of the feathers strong and deep 

 shining black ; wings with small irregular spots of brownish white. 

 Length 21" ; wings 9" 3"'. 

 Hab. K.6 Islands {Wallace). 



EUDYNAMYS PUNCTATUS. 



Cuculus rufiventris, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. Zool. i. p. 623. 

 Eudynamys rufiventris, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 464. 

 Eudynamys punctatus, Pr. B. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 101. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorey (Lesson). 



Cuculus leucolophus. 



Hierococcyx leucolophus, Mull. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. pp. 22, 233. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo (Mutter). 



Cuculus assimilis. 



Cuculus assimilis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 184. 



Allied to C.flavus. Bronzy brown, marked on some of the edges 

 with pale rufous ; side of head and chin tinged with grey ; under sur- 

 face rusty colour, with the throat, breast and abdomen banded with 

 slate-colour ; tail bronzy brown, with triangular marks along the 

 edges of each feather. 



Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 



Cuculus megarhynchus. 



Cuculus megarhynchus, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 184. 



Top and sides of the head greyish black ; upper surface bronzy 

 brown edged with rust/ ; under surface brownish white mixed with 

 rusty, and spotted with minute spots of greyish black ; tail bronzy 

 brown, tipped with rusty white, with the outer feather banded in the 

 inner web with rusty white. 



Length 7" 6'" ; wings 3" 9'". 



Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 



Chrysococcyx lucidus. 



Cuculus lucidus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 421. 



Chrysococcyx lucidus, Gould, B. of Austr. iv. pi. 88. 



Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo (Mutter). 



columbid.e. 



Ptilonopus pulchellus. 



Columba pulchella, Temm. PI. Col. 564. 



Ptilonopus pulchellus, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 466. 



a. New Guinea. Procured from Mr. Cuming. Lobo (Mutter). 



