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Ord^r CUCULIFOBMES. Family GUCULIDM 
No. 402. 
CUCULUS OPTATUS. 
ORIENTAL CUCKOO. 
(Plate 349.) 
CJncuLLS OPTATFS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 18 : Port Essington, Northern 
Territory. 
Cuculus optatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 18 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxi. 
(Vbl. IV., pi, 48), 1845 (Dec.) ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 463, 1847 ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. L, p. 103, 1850 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 292, 
1912 ; id., List Birds Austral., p. 154, 1913 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., 
p. 152, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIIL, p. 162, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., 
Vol. XVE., p. 220, 1917 (N.T.). 
Cuculus fucatus Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., p. 136, 1848 ; 2 ed., p. 244 : Sooloo Islands. 
Nicoclarius optatus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 6, 1854. 
Cuculus optatus {cantor) Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol., p. 78, 1854. 
Cuculus horsfieldii Moore in Horsfield and Moore’s Cat. Birds Mus. East India Comp., Vol. 
II., p. 703, 1857 : Java. 
Cuculus tenuirostris (nec Lesson) Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., p. 244, 1858. 
Cuculus cantor “ HI.” Cahanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. IV., p. 34, 1862 : nom. nudum. 
Cuculus canoroides Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 614, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
? Cuculus buhu Dybowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, p. 336 : nom. nudum. 
Cuculus peninsulce Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 227, 1885 : Commander 
Islands. 
Cuculus intermedius (part) Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 252, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 58, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 663, 1901 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 44, 1906 (N.Q.). 
Cuculus saturatus (nec Blyth) Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 57, 1908 ; id.. Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 109, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Broadbent, id., p. 239 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, id., Vol. 
XL,p. 24, 1911 (N.Q.). 
? Cuculus optatus belli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 83, May 25, 1916 : 
Lord Howe Island. 
Cuculus optatus optatus Mathews, ib. 
Distribftiox. New South Wales ; Queensland ; Northern Territory ; North-west 
Australia. Extra-limital. 
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