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OOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By Alfred J. North, F.L.S., Australian Museum, Sydney. 
With the exception of an immature egg of Eudynamis cyano- 
cephala previously described by me* the eggs of the following 
species are now, so far as I am aware, described for the first time. 
Eudynamis cyanocephala, Latham. 
Flinder's Cuckoo is freely distributed during the spring and 
summer months throughout the coastal scrubs of Eastern Aus- 
tralia, its range also extending around the northern and extreme 
north-western portions of the continent and to New Guinea and 
Timor. In New South Wales it generally arrives during the 
latter part of September, and is more frequently met with in the 
tropical and luxuriant brushes of the northern coastal rivers; 
localities where the wild fig, native cherry and numerous other 
fruit and berry-bearing trees and shrubs abound, and which 
afford this species an abundant supply of food. It does not 
confine its diet entirely to wild fruits and berries, for in the high 
table-lands of the New England District it freely enters gardens 
and orchards in search of food, committing great depredations 
among cultivated fruits, especially plums and cherries. About 
the end of February it retires northwards again. Hitherto the 
only egg of this parasitic Cuckoo I had ever seen was an imma- 
ture one obtained by Mr. George Masters at Gayndah, Queensland, 
on the 25th of November, 1870. Having shot at a female and 
broken her wing, while pursuing her on the ground the egg was 
dropped. For an opportunity of examining a normal egg of this 
Cuckoo I am indebted to Mr. S. W. Jackson, who recently watched 
and waited while one of these parasites deposited her egg in the 
* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.VV. Vol. ii. 2nd Series, p. 544 (1887). 
