THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Cuculus 'pyrro'phanus dumetorum Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 21, 1912 ; id., Nov. 
ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 294, 1912. 
Cacomimtis lineatus Dodd, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 165, Jan. 1, 1913 : Nelson, North Queensland. 
Cuculus westwoodia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 190, March 20, 1913 : Westwood, 
near Rockhampton, Queensland. 
Cacomantis pyrrophanus variolosus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 155, 1913. 
Cacomantis pyrropJianus dumetorum Mathews, ih., p. 156. 
Cacomantis pyrrophanus westwoodia Mathews, ib,, p. 156. 
Distribution. Queensland ; New' South Wales ; Victoria ; Northern Territory ; North- 
west Austraha. 
Adult male. Upper-surface for the most part bronze-brown including the back, wings, and 
tail ; shghtly darker on the lesser upper wing-coverts ; outer edge of wing creamy- 
white ; inner-webs of fiight-quiUs creamy-white on the basal portion ; rump and 
upper tail-coverts shghtly shaded with grey ; tail-feathers very narrowly fringed on 
the outer webs, toothed on the inner ones, and tipped, with white ; head dark ash-grey 
becoming paler on the sides of the crown, sides of face, throat, fore-neck, and breast, 
the last tinged with fawn-colour ; abdomen, sides of the body, under tail-coverts, 
axillaries and under wing-coverts fawn-colour, paler and inclining to cinnamon on 
the last ; under-surface of quills pale brown with creamy-white inner edges ; lower 
aspect of tail pale brown tipped and notched on the inner-webs with white. Eyes 
brown ; feet yellowish-grey ; bill blackish. Total length 235 mm. ; cuhnen 18, 
wing 136, tail 114, tarsus 17. Figured. Collected at Parramatta, New South 
Wales, in July, 1909. 
Adult female. Very similar to the adult male. 
Immature. General colour above pale brown barred and marked with pale rufous or 
fawn-colour ; crown of head dark brown, the feathers laterally margined with rufous ; 
hind-neck similar, but the margins narrower and paler ; upper wing-coverts dark 
brown, narrowly fringed with rufous and rufous bars on the median and greater 
series ; outer edge of wing dull white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts bronze- 
brown marked with pale rufous at the tips ; primary and secondary quills bronze- 
brown marked on the outer webs and at the tips, as well as a portion of the inner web, 
with pale rufous, a large patch of white on the inner-w^ebs tow'ards the base ; tail- 
feathers bronze-brown barred with rufous, tipped with white and partially barred 
with white on the inner-webs ; sides of face for the most part rufous marked with 
brown, throat, fore-neck, and breast brown, the feathers fringed and marked with 
white, or smoky-white ; abdomen, sides of body, axillaries and under tail-coverts 
white barred with brown ; under wing-coverts w hite barred or spotted with brown and 
, tinged with pale buff ; under-surface of quills pale brown, with an oblique patch 
of white and more or less marked with pale rufous ; lower aspect of tail barred with 
brown, rufous, and white. Figured. Collected at Hunter’s HiU, New South Wales, 
in August, 1881. And is very similar to Vigors and Horsfield’s type of variolosus. 
Egg. Pearly white, a band round the larger end, blotched and spotted with purple and 
lavender. 19-22 mm. by 15-18. 
Breeding-season. October to January. 
Under the name Cuculus variolosus Vigors and Horsfield described a bird 
sent by Caley with the note : “ The specimen now described has much the 
appearance of a young bird ; and we find that Mr, Caley in his Notes seems to 
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