Order GUCULIFORMES. 
No. 407. 
Family CUGULIDM. 
OWENAVTS OSCULANS. 
BLACK-EARED CUCKOO. 
(Plate 354.)* 
Chalcites oscuLAisrs Gk)uld, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 32 : New South Wales. 
Ghalcites osculans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 32 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxn. 
(Vol. IV., pi. 88), Dec. 1, 1847. 
Guculus osculans Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 463, 1857. 
Ghrysococcyx osculans Gould, Introd. Birds Austr., octav., p. 67, 1848. 
Mesocalius't osculans Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 621, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn, 
Soc., N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 57, 1875 (Gulf) ; Carter, Emu, Vol. IH., p. 96, 1903 (M.-W.A.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 15, 1911 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 230, 1910 (Vic.) ; Chandler, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 37, 1913 (Vic.) ; Barnard, ih., 
Vol. XIV., p. 43, 1914 (N.T.) ; Cheney, ih., p. 207, 1915 (Vic.). 
Mesocalius palUolatus (nec Latham) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 
1877 ; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 279, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 59, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 575, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. Ill, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 218, 
1905 (N.T.) ; A. J. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 197, 1907 ; G. F. Hill, ih., Vol. VII., 
p. 21, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Hancll. Birds Austral., p. 57, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 7, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Gibson, ih., p. 76 (S.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ih., p. 193, 1910 (W.A.) ; 
G. E. Hill, ih., Vol. X., p. 272, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Wilson, ih., Vol. XII., p. 32, 1912 
(Vic.) ; Gilbert and Keane, ih., Vol. XIIL, p. 80, 1913 (N.S.W.). 
Owenavis osculans osculans Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 21, 1912 ; id., Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 294, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 166, 1913 ; S, A. White, Emu, 
Vol. XIV., p. 187, 1915 (Cent. A.). 
Owenavis osculans rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 13, 1912 ; Parry’s Creek, 
North-west Austraha ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 294, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 156, 1913. 
Distrebtjtion. Australia (rarely coastal). 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-parts, including the scapulars, and upper 
wing-coverts, hind-neck and upper back, pale earth-brown with pale edges to many 
of the feathers, paler and inclining to ash-grey on the head, lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform brown ; flight-quiQs 
pale bronze-brown, darker on the basal portion but more extended towards the tips 
* The plate is lettered Owenavis rogersi. 
t Also spelt Misocalius. 
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