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gials or central pair, of a duller or more bronzed green, with dusky tip 

 and slight rufous edge, and one of the outermost pair, also unmoulted, 

 having a pale tip and deep rufous barrings, but the corresponding 

 outermost feather on the other side, which has been moulted, having 

 smaller bars of white, almost confined to the outer web ; rest of the tail 

 streakless, and equally bright on both webs as the uropygials, the penul- 

 timate feather only being slightly tipped with white; such of the large 

 wing-feathers, also, as have been renewed, are bright-green like those of 

 the back, the old being dusky with merely a faint gloss of green, and 

 the old coverts a more bronzed green, slightly tipped with rufous. 

 A presumed old female is smaller, or barely six inches and a half long ; 

 wing from bend four inches and one-eighth, and tail two inches and 

 three-quarters : dusky tips of the mandibles rather more developed 

 than in the male : this specimen also is moulting, and the new feathers 

 of its wings and tail resemble those of the other sex ; but the rest of 

 the upper-parts are much more bronzed, especially on the head and 

 neck, and the feathers of the crown have each a well denned narrow 

 whitish bar; throat, front of neek, and breast, also bronzed shining 

 green, with white cross-bars; and rest of the under-parts resembling 

 those of the male, but the transverse green markings more bronzed. 

 Three specimens of the young differ from the young of the subgenerically 

 restricted Cuckoos in having no transverse bars on the upper parts: 

 crown, nape, and interscapularies, a rather faintly bronzed dull-brown, 

 the last also more or less of a shining green, which prevails on the scapu- 

 laries, tertiaries, and on the wing and tail-coverts; under-parts whitish, 

 barred throughout with faintly bronzed brown ; primaries and second- 

 aries, with the coverts of the former, and the winglet, dull brown, the 

 primaries marked at the basal half of their inner webs underneath with 

 white, as is also the case in the adults ; tail brown, with a faint 

 green gloss and subterminal dusky band, all but the uropygials having 

 a white spot at the tip of their inner webs, and the outermost feathers 

 having both webs barred with white, and more of this than in the 

 adult, and the rest with two or three rufescent bars on the inner web 

 only : bill wholly dusky. 



The C. lucidus was originally discovered in New Zealand, and 

 is also known as an inhabitant of Australia, from which continent the 

 specimen described as C. melallicus was obtained. The C. Malm/anus 



