Order CUCUL1F0RME8. 
No. 405. 
Family GVGVL1D.F. 
CACOMANTIS PYRRHOPHANUS. 
SQUARE-TAILED (BRUSH) CUCKOO. 
(Plate 352.) 
UCULUS PYRROPHANUS Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 324, 1817: 
“ Nouvelle Hollande ” = Java [= Timor ?]. 
CucuLTjs vARioLosus Vigois and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 300, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Guculus variolosus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 300, 1827. 
Guculus insperatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 19 : New South Wales. ; id., 
Birds Austr., pt. xxv. (Vol. IV.,. pi. 87), 1846. 
GvjCuIus dumetorum Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 19 : Port Essington, Northern 
Territory. 
Guculus viridirufus “ Temm.” Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 103, 1850 : nom. nudum. 
Gacomantis dumetorum Bonaparte, ih., p. 103 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 820, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II,, p. 178, 1878. 
Guculus {Gacomantis) tymhonomus Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
Gacomantis insperatus Bonaparte, Consp., Gen. Av,, Vol. I., p, 103, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p, 619, 1865. 
Guculus hrisbanensis Diggles, Queensl. Philos. Soc. Trans., 1872, p. 12 : Norman’s Creek, 
Brisbane, Queensland ; Mathews, Austral Av. Rec,, Vol. I., p, 69, 1912. 
Guculus {Gacomantis) insperatus Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888, 
Gacomantis variolosus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 272, 1891 ; A. J. Campbell, 
Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XV., p. 18, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p, 58, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 572, 1901 ; HaU, Emu, Vol. I., 
p. Ill, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Campbell, ih., Vol. II., pp. 16/178, 1902 (Vic.) ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 218, 1905 ; CampbeU and White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 197, 
1910 \N.Q.) ; Broadbent, ih., p. 239, 1910 (N.Q.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat,, 
No. 1, Vol. III., p. 11, 1911 ; Stone, Emu, Vol. XIL, p. 117, 1912 (Vic,) ; 
MacgiUivray, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 162, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 43, 
1914 (N.T.); H. L. White, ih., Vol. XVI., p. 220, 1917 (N.T.). 
Gacomantis flab elli for mis (not Latham) North, Ibis, 1906, p. 53 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 57, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, p. 467 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. IX„ 
p. 58, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; G. E. HiU, ih., Vol. X., p. 272, 1911 (N.W.A.) 
Guculus pyrrophanus variolosus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p, 21, 1912 ; id., Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 293, 1912. 
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