Order CUCVLIFORMES. 
No, 408. 
Family CUGULIDjE. 
CHALCITES BASALIS. 
NARROW-BILLED BRONZE CUCKOO. 
(Plate 355.)* 
CucuLTJS BASALIS Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.) Vol, XIII., p. 179, 1821 ; Java. 
Chrysoccoccyx lucidus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pi. 89 (pt. xxix.), 1847, upper and lower 
figures. 
Lamprococcyx modesta Biggies, Trans. Philos. Soc. Queens!., 1876, p. 12 : Norman’s Creek, 
Brisbane, Queensland ; Mathews, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. I., p. 70, 1912. 
Lamprococcyx basalts Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 626, 1865 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 23, 1911. 
Chalcites basalts Castelnau and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 385, 1877 (Q.) ; 
Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. II., p. 170, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
Cuculus basalis Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 238, 1887. 
Chalcococcyx basalis Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 294, 1891 ; HaU, Key 
Birds Aust., p, 59, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 576, 
1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 110, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. II., p. 16, 
1902 (Vic.), p. 208, 1903 (King I.); Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 96, 1903 (M.W.A.); 
Bemey, ib., Vol. VI., p. 44, 1906 (N.Q.) ; G. E. HiU, ib., Vol. VIL, p. 21, 1907 (Vic.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 58, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 191, 
1909 (W.A.) ; Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., pp. 8-59, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Gibson, ib., p. 76, 
1909 (S.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 193, 1910 (W.A.) ; Howe, ib., p. 230, 1910 (Vic.) ; 
Wilson, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 32, 1912 (Vic.) ; Stone, ib., p. 117 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, 
tb., Vol. XIII., p. 24, 1913 (S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., p. 37 (Vic.) ; Macgillivray, ib,, 
p. 163, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., p. 207, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 43, 
1914 (N.T.) ; Chene}', ib., p. 207, 1915 (Vic.). 
Chrysococcyx basalis Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p, 218, 1915 (N.W.A.). 
Chrysococcyx basalis mellori Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 14, Jan. 2, 1912 : Eyre’s 
Peninsula, South Australia ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 294, 1912. 
Chrysococcyx basalis wyndhami Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 14, Jan. 2, 1912 : 
Point Torment, North-west Australia ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 295, 1912. 
Neochalcites basalis mellori Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 157, 1913. 
Neochalcites basalis modestus Mathews, ib, 
Neochalcites basalis wyndhami Mathews, ib. 
* The plate is lettered Neochalcites basalis. 
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