ORDER CUCULIFORMES, 
No. 409. 
Family CUCULIDM. 
LAMPROCOCCYX LUCIDUS. 
BROAD-BILLED BRONZE CUCKOO. 
(Plate 356.) 
CucuLus LirciDtrs Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 421, 1788 : Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. 
Cuculus lucidus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 421, 1788. 
Cuculus nitens Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht., p. 161, 1844 (not of Forster, 1792) : Queen 
Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. 
Lamprococcyx lucidus Cahanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. IV., p. 14, 1862 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1., Vol. III., p. 22, 1911 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 157, 
1913. 
Chrysococcyx lucidus BuUer, Birds New Zealand, p. 77, 1873 ; id., ib., 2nd ed., Vol. 1., 
p. 132, pi. 15, 1888 ; Mathews, Austral Av, Rec., pp. 15-21, 1912 ; id., Nov. ZooL, Vol. 
XVIII., p. 295, 1912. 
Chalcococcyx lucidus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 295, 1891 ; HaU, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 59, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 580, 
1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 58, 1908 ; Fulton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 
1909, p. 392, 1910 ; Campbell and White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 197, 1910. 
Lamprococcyx lucidus australis Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVE., p. 83, 
May 25, 1916 : Queensland (Capricorn Group of Islands). 
Distribution, (New Zealand) ; Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface green or bronze-green with strong copper 
reflections on the head, hind-neck, mantle, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; bastard- 
primary-coverts, and flight-quills bronze-brown with white on the basal portion 
of the inner webs of the last ; tail bronze-green with a slight indication of a dark 
subterminal bdnd, a white spot on the inner web at the tip of the lateral feathers, 
which is only indicated on the pair next to the two central ones but increases 
in extent towards the outermost, this last is largely marked with white and shaded 
with dark brown on both webs ; terminal portion of outer web paler ; lores, feathers 
above and below the eye, and fore part of head tipped with white ; throat and entire 
under-surface of body, including the under wing-coverts, white' barred with bronze- 
green ; under-surface of quills pale brown with an oblique patch of white on the 
basal portion ; lower aspect of tail dusky-grey, darker subterminally and on the basal 
portion, the white spots and dark shadows on the outer feathers are similar to those 
on the upper side. Eyes greenish-yellow ; feet blue-grey ; bill black, base of lower 
mandible brown. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 103, tail 67, tarsus 
15. Figured. Collected on the North Island of the Capricorn Group, off Queensland, 
on the 11th of October, 1910, 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
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