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seen it in the Botanic Garden at Sydney in the month of March. 
Its food consists of insects of various orders, the stomachs of those 
examined containing the remains of Hymenoptera, Goleoptera, and 
caterpillars. While searching for food, its motions, although very 
active, are characterized by a remarkable degree of quietude, the bird 
leaping about from branch to branch in the gentlest manner possible, 
picking an insect here and there, and prying for others among the 
leaves and the crevices of the bark with the most scrutinizing care. 
Its flight is rather quick and undulating, and when passing from one 
tree to another on a sunny day, the brilliant green colouring of the 
male shows very beautifully. Like the true Cuckoos, it always 
deposits its single egg in the nest of another bird : in Van Diemen's 
Land, those of the Malurus longicaudus and Acanthiza diemenensis 
are generally selected ; in New South Wales, the Malurus cyaneus and 
the Acanthiza chrysorrJioea are among others the foster-parents ; in 
Western Australia, the nests of the various kinds of Honey-eaters, 
and the Malurus splendens, are. resorted to : and it is a remarkable 
fact that the egg is mostly deposited in a domed nest, with a very 
small hole for an entrance. Its note is a mournful whistle, very like 
that usually employed to call a dog. The egg is of a clear olive- 
brown, somewhat paler at the smaller end, about of an inch 
long, by f an inch in breadth. The stomach is capacious, mem- 
branous, and slightly lined with hair." — (Grould, B. of Australia.) 
1033. CHBYSOCOCCYX BASALTS, Horsfield Sp. 
Cuculus basalis, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. ^. 179 
(1821). LatJiam, Hist of 111. p. 287. 
Chrysococcyx hasalis, JBlyth, Cat.B.Mus. A. S. Beng.p. 73. 
Cuculus chalcites, Illiger, Temm., Bl. Col. t. 102, f. 2. 
Chrysococcyx chalcites, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XL p. 919 ; 
XIL^. 944. Bonap., G. G. Av. p. 10*6. 
Chrysococcyx lucidus, apud Strickland, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. XIIL^. 391. 
A. Java (type). From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
Genus Eudynamys, Vigors et Horsf. Trails. Linn. Soc. XV. 
p. 303 (1826). 
1034. EUDYNAMYS ORIENTALIS, Linn. Sp. 
^ Cuculus orientalis, Linn., S. N. 1. p. 168. {Bl. Enl^ 
274,/ 1.) Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. XIIL p. 178! 
