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Genus— CHALCITES. 
Chaucites Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 152, 1830 . . . . Type C. hasalis. 
Neochahites Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., 
p. 7, 1913 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Type C. hasalis. 
In the place quoted above I wrote : “ Lesson proposed a race name Chalcites 
for the Shining Cuckoos. This name has often been used in connection with the 
Australian Bronze Cuckoos, inasmuch as the bird called Cuculus chalcites by 
Temminck, and included by Lesson, was supposed to be a young bird belonging 
to this group. However, Chalcites was only proposed by Lesson as a race-name, 
and therefore it is inadmissible as a generic name from that introduction.” 
Since this was written it has been agreed by authorities on nomenclature 
that such race-names should be admitted and consequently I here make 
use of it. 
As the type species is the one I separated generically I would note that I 
had contempleted sinking my own genus, but upon reconsideration I found the 
differences demand full generic recognition. Further, if that should be denied, the 
name would become valid for the whole of the Indo-Austrahan species classed 
under Chalcococcyx in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum^ Vol. 
XIX., but which I separated into Chalcococcyx^ Lamprococcyx and Neochahites. 
The peculiar bill and coloration separate the first-named, while the latter 
(now Chalcites) was distinguished on account of the absence of bars on the under- 
surface of the immature. I now find that the particularly narrow bill is 
accompanied by the structurally long naked legs and longer tail. The throat 
is longitudinally striped, and the upper-surface as well as the barring below 
shows little bronze coloration. To these may be added the very different 
egg coloration. 
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