Order CVCUL1F0RME8. 
No. 406. 
Family CUCULIDM 
VIDGENIA CASTANEIVENTRIS. 
CHESTNUT-BREASTED CUCKOO. 
(Plate 353.)* 
CUCTJLUS (Cacomantis) CASTANEIVENTRIS Gould, Aiui. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XX., 
pt. II., p. 269, 1867 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Cuculus {Cacomantis) castaneiventris Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XX., 
p. 269, 1867 ; id., Birds Austr., Suppl., pi. 55 (pt. 4), Dec., 1867 ; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888 ; Mathews, Austr., Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 21, 1912 ; 
id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 294, 1912. 
Cacomantis castaneiventris Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 274, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 58, 1899 ; Campbell, Ibis, 1899, p. 362 (N.Q.) . id.. Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 574, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 57, 
1908; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 24, 1911 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 163, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XV., p. 61, 1915 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 156, 1913. 
Cacomantis castaneiventris castaneiventris Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 92, 1914. 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour above dark bluish-slate colour including the head, back, wings, 
and tail ; outer edge of wing whitish, flight-quills dark brown with a greenish tinge 
on the outer aspect and more or less white on the inner-webs ; tail somewhat more 
blue than the back, aU the feathers tipped with white, the outer ones notched on the 
inner- webs with white and blotched in two places on the shafts with the same colour, 
on the outermost pair these two white marks almost join up and form an incomplete 
or mottled bar ; fore-part of the head, sides of the face, and chin tinged with hoary 
grey ; throat,breast, sides of the body, abdomen and under tail-coverts chestnut; axil- 
laries and under wing-coverts cinnamon-buff ; under-surface of flight-quiUs broadly 
margined with white on the basal portion ; lower aspect of tail dark purplish-blue 
on the middle feathers, becoming paler on the outer ones which are more profusely 
marked with white. Eyes with inner circle brown, outer yellow; eyelids bright yellow. 
Feet and tarsus bright yellow ; bill black with the base of lower mandible yellowish- 
brown. Figured. Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the 27th September, 
1911, Total length 225 mm. ; cuhnen 15, wing 109, tail 112, tarsus 16. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
* The plate is lettered Cacomantis castaneiventris. 
