BRONZE CUCKOO. 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; Tasmania ; South Australia ; 
South-west Australia. 
Adult male. Upper-surface including the head, mantle, back, and lesser upper wing-coverts, 
dark copper-bronze, the remaindre of the wings, upper tail-coverts and tail bronze- 
green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quUls uniform brown, the inner- 
webs of the last isabeUine at the base which commences on the third outer primary ; 
lateral upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; a slightly indicated dark subterminal 
band on the tail, the two middle feathers bronze-green, each of the lateral ones tipped 
with white on the inner-web, the pair next to the central feathers shghtly marked 
with rufous on the inner-webs,»the inner-webs of the following pair toothed with rufous; 
the penultimate pair have the inner-webs barred with white — ^the white tinged more 
or less with pale rufous, and the outermost pair more broadly barred with white on 
the inner-webs and indented with the same colour on the outer ones ; base of the fore- 
head, lores, feathers above the eye and sides of the face speckled with white and 
bronze-brown ; throat, breast, and remainder of the under-surface white barred 
with bronze-brown, rather more coppery on the breast and sides of the neck, the bars 
narrower on the throat, breast, and under wing-coverts and broader on the abdomen, 
sides of the body, and under tail-coverts ; quills below pale brown with white edges 
on the basal portion ; lower aspect of tail grey with an incomplete drak subterminal 
band, coarsely marked with white and slightly tinged ,on some of the feathers with 
pale rufous. Eyes yellowish. Feet and tarsus greenish ; bill black. Total length 
162 mm. ; culmen 14, wing 104, tail 69, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected at Cape 
York, North Queensland, on the 5th of May, 1913. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Head, hind-neck, mantle, and lesser upper wing-coverts dark copper-bronze, 
remainder of the wings, back, and tail bronze-green ; median and greater upper 
wing-coverts very narrowly edged with pale rufous like the primary and secondary 
quills ; outer edge of wing whitish ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform 
brown ; flight-quills bronze-green on the outer webs, pale brown on the inner ones, 
which are buffy white towards the base on the primaries and almost pure white on the 
secondaries ; tail bronze-green with a dark subterminal band indicated, the four 
middle feathers very similar, but the next pair differs in having three faint marks of 
rufous on the inner- webs and a white spot at the tip of the inner-webs slightlyindicated, 
which is more clearly deflned on the penultimate pair of feathers and the rufous 
spots, also on the inner-webs, more clearly pronounced, this pair is also marked 
with dark brown, or blackish at the base, the outermost pair have five white spots on 
the inner- webs and three dark marks and two paler ones on the outer webs, there are 
two dark marks and three paler ones, also four white marks and one, very slightly 
indicated, and a buffy-white mark near the tip ; lores and feathers above and behind 
the eye, sides of the face, chin, throat and fore-neck ash-grey with pale dusky-brown 
intermixed and dark bases to the feathers — ^the brown more intensified on the 
sides of the neck and sides of the breast, assuming the form of bars on the sides 
of the body where the predominating colour is white ; middle of breast, abdomen, 
under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts white ; axillaries also white, slightly 
marked with very pale brown ; under-surface of flight-quills pale greyish-bripWn 
with isabelline inner edgings to some of the primaries, becoming white on the 
secondaries ; lower aspect of tail grey marked with blackish, brown, and white — • 
some of the feathers tinged with rufous. Figured. Collected at Ohnda, in Victoria, 
on the 1st of December, 1912. 
Egg. Uniform greenish-olive or bronze. 19 mm. by 13. 
Brewing-season. August to December. 
Thb Bronze Cuckoos of Australia were all included under the name C, Iticidus, 
and under that name Gould figured both the Broad-billed and Narrow-billed 
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