THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Immature General colour of the upper-surface for the most part copper-bronze, inclining 
to_ bronze-green on the scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts and flight-quills uniform brown tinged with bronze on the outer webs 
and white on the basal portion of the inner-webs of the last ; tail copper-bronze with 
an indication of a dark broad subterminal band, a spot of white at the tip on the inner 
web of each of the feathers except the middle pair, the penultimate pair barred with 
white on the inner-webs, the outermost pair also barred with white on the inner-webs 
and indented with white on the outer ones, the white at the tip on the inner-webs 
encroaching on to the margin of the outer webs ; lores, feathers in front of the eye, 
and a line over the eye whitish ; hinder-face and sides of neck bronze-brown, the 
feathers barred with white ; throat and fore-neck whitish, the feathers barred or 
otherwise marked with dusky brown ; remainder of the under-surface, including the 
axillaries and under wing-coverts, wFite barred with bronze-browm ; under-surface 
of quills pale browm with white bases to the feathers, except the three outer ones ; 
lower aspect of tail greyish-browm with a dark subterminal band and marked with 
white like the upper-surface. Figured. Collected on Lord Howe Island on the 13th 
of February, 1915. 
Whether the New Zealand Cuckoo occurs in Australia at all seems a question- 
able conclusion. At first the Australian and New Zealand species were confused, 
and at the present time their relationships are not exactly known. 
The Tasmanian form of the Australian species recalls the New Zealand so 
closely that the latter was assigned to Tasmania when the former were separated. 
A long essay on the New Zealand Bronze Cuckoo by Fulton appears in the 
Trans, New Zeal. Inst., 1909, pp. 392-408, 1910, to which reference may be made. 
Facts and fancies in connection with other Cuckoos as well as the New Zealand 
one are there included. I do not propose to concern myself with reference to 
the habits as there given, but would comment upon the distribution. Fulton 
wote : “ The Bronze Cuckoo is probably a native of New Guinea, and annually 
migrates to New Zealand, passing through or near New Caledonia, the Kermadecs, 
Norfolk Island, and striking the coast from the Western ocean, traverses the 
islands, and even goes farther on, appearing at the Chatham and the Macquarie 
Islands a day or so later, thus forming an additional link in the large chain of 
evidence as to the original land connection of the various islands forming what 
is known as the New Zealand plateau. That the birds come over the ocean 
from the north-west I will present evidence later on ; but I would like to point 
out that they have been recorded at Lord Howe Island. After sojourning with 
us for a few months, and producing a considerable number of young ones, these 
summer visitors quietly return to their home in the tropics.” Fulton then 
quoted Hutton in 1871 as writing : “ Leaves New Zealand in the winter, and is 
found in Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia, Java and Sumatra,” to which 
Hutton and Drummond in 1904 added : “ Norfolk Island, Cape York Peninsula.” 
A further quotation from Campbell’s Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds'. 
Extends down the east of Australia to Tasmania and New Zealand.” Fulton 
then added : “ One correspondent who lived for many years in North Taranaki, 
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