Order PICARL'E.] 
[Fam. CUCUHD^E. 
CHRYSOCOCCYX LUCIDUS. 
(SHINING CUCKOO.) 
Shining Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 528, pi. xxiii. (1782). 
Cuculus lucidus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 421 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Variable Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 250 (1801). 
Sylvia versicolora, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. lvi (1801). 
Chalcites lucidus, Less. Traite d’Orn. p. 153 (1831). 
Cuculus nitens, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 151 (1844). 
Cuculus versicolor, Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 463 (1847). 
Chrysococcyx lucidus, Gould, B. of Austr. iv. pi. 89 (1848). 
Cuculus chalcites, Illiger, MS. in Mus. Berol., unde 
Chrysococcyx chalcites, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 78 (1854). 
Lamprococcyx lucidus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 14 (1862). 
Chrysococcyx plagosus, Hutton ( nec Lath.), Trans. N.-Z. Inst. (1872), vol. v. p. 223 *. 
Native names. 
Warauroa, Pipiauroa, and Pipiwarauroa. 
Ad. supra metallice viridis, seneo et cupreo nitens, supracaudalibus lateralibus late albo semifasciatis : fronte, super- 
eilio distincto et facie laterali albo maculatis, viridi transfasciatis : loris mentoquc albidis baud viridi notatis : 
tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : remigibus brunneis, ad basin pogonii interni albidis, primariis extus 
seneo nitentibus, secundariis magis conspicue lavatis et pennis dorsalibus omnino dorso concoloribus : cauda 
brunnea, scneo-viridi nitente, fascia anteapicali nigricante, rectricibus tribus exterioribus ad apicem pogonii 
interni albo maculatis, penna extima albo conspicue fasciata, penultima in medio vix rufescente tincta : 
pectore et subalaribus albicautibus transversim teneo-viridi fasciatis : abdomine purius albo, bypocbondriis 
subcaudalibusque conspicub seneo-viridi transfasciatis : rostro nigro : pedibus brunnescenti-nigris, plantis 
pedum flavicantibus : iride nigra. 
Juv. obscurior et sordidior, minus metallicus : tectricibus alarum brunneo marginatis : cauda nusquam rufescente : 
gutture et pectore superiore fulvescenti-albis, fuscescenti-brunneo variis, vix viridi lavatis : corpore reliquo 
subtus fulvescenti-albo, hypochondriis et corporis lateribus fasciis interruptis metallice viridibus notatis : 
subcaudalibus maculis viridibus triquetris transnotatis. 
Adult male. Upper parts bright golden green, changing to coppery purple in certain lights ; frontal feathers 
tipped more or less with white ; superciliary streak formed of irregular whitish spots ; throat, sides of head, 
and fore part of neck white, with narrow broken bars of coppery green ; breast and underparts generally 
white, with transverse bands of changing golden green, coppery brown in certain aspects ; on the sides, 
flanks, and under tail-coverts these bands are very regular and conspicuous, each feather being crossed by 
* “ Captain Hutton says that the Chatham-Island Bronze Cuckoo is not the same as the New-Zealand one, hut is C. plagosus 
of Australia, in which opinion I do not agree, after having compared a specimen from the Chatham Islands lent me by the New- 
Zealand Institute. The underparts show a little broader gold-green crossbands, and the second tail-feathers, instead of two well- 
defined rusty bands, have only indications of them ; but there is no other difference, and I see no reason to separate the Chatham 
Island bird from the New-Zealand C. lucidus .” (Finsch, Trans. N.-Z. Inst. vol. vii. p. 227.) 
