Order CUCULIFORMES. 
No. 403. 
Family CVCULIDAi. 
HETEROSCENES PALLIDUS. 
PALLID CUCKOO. 
(Plate 350.) 
CoLTTMBA PALLIDA Latham, Index Ornith., SuppL, p. lx., 1801 : New South Wales. 
Pale Pigeon Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, SuppL, Vol. II., p. 270, 1801. 
Columba 'pallida Latham, Index Ornith., SuppL, p. lx., 1801 ; Mathews, Austral Av. Reo., 
Vol. III., p. 1, pi. I., 1915. 
Cuculus variegatus (not Scopoli, 1786) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 224, 
1817 : New South Wales ; Pucheran, Revue Mag. ZooL, 1852, p. 555. 
Cuculus cinereiLs Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 226, 1817 : New South 
Wales ; Pucheran, Revue Mag. ZooL, 1852, p. 656, 
Cuculus inornatus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 297, 1827 : 
New South Wales ; Gould, Birds Aust., pt. xxv. (Vol. IV., pi. 85), 1846 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 67, 1906 ; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, p. 467 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, 
Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 7-68, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; id., ih., p. 68 (N.T.) ; HaU, ib., p. 130, 
1910 (S.A.) ; Crossmann, ih., p. 150, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ih., p. 193 (W.A.) ; 
Howe (ornatus) ib., p. 230 (Vic.) ; Mathews, ih., Vol. X., p. 110, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; 
G. F. Hill, ib., p. 272, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; North, Austr., Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 1, 1911 ; G. F. Hill, Emu, VoL, XII., p. 256, 1913 (N.T.). 
Cuculus albostrigatus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc., (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 298, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Chalcites simplex Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 11th Year, No. 48, June 20, 1844, 
col. 1138 : New South Wales. 
Cacomantis inornatus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 103, 1850. 
Cacomantis cinereus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 6, 1854. 
Heteroscenes pallidus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. IV., p. 26, 1862 ; Mathews, list 
Birds Austr., p. 154, 1913 ; S. A. White, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 7, 1916 ; 
[General] ih., Vol. III., p. 129, 1918. 
Heteroscenes occidentalis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. IV., p. 27, note, 1862 : West 
Australia. 
Cuculus pallidus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi, Vol. 1. p. 26, 1864 ; SheUey, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 261, 1891 ; A .G. Campbell, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XIV., p. 68, 
1897 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 58, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 564, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. Ill, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; A. G. CampbeU,' 
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