BRONZE CUCKOO. 
recorded about Broome Hill. September 8, 1906. One seen. October 14, 
1906. Fresh egg in nest of Acanthiza apicalis. December 11, 1906. Egg in 
nest of Acanthiza chrysorrhoa. December 15, 1907. Fledged young being 
fed by Acan. chrysorrhoa. About this time there were hundreds of Bronze 
Cuckoos feeding in the stubble of a neighbour’s field. Never saw such a 
lot of them before or after. Single birds noted February 9, 1907, August 30, 
1908. Found an egg in nest of Acan. apicalis, October 31, 1908. One kiUed 
by flying against a wire fence December 20, 1908, and another seen 
September 3, 1910, a single bird, was noted, while I have occasionally seen a 
bird about Albany in summer months.” 
H. L. White {Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 152, 1915) has a long list of foster-parents 
as : “ Hirundo neoxena, Hylochelidon nigricans, Microeca fascinans, Petroica 
multicolor, Littlera chrysoptera, Whiteornis goodenovii, Erythrodryas rodinogaster, 
Melanodryas cucullata, Amaurodryas vittata, Smicrornis hrevirostris, Gerygone 
olivacea, Ethelornis culicivorus, E. magnirostris, Wilsonavis fusca, W. Icevig aster, 
Pseudogerygone per sonata, Heteromyias cinereifrons, Rhipidura flabellifera, 
Leucocirca tricolor, Myiagra rubecula, M. nitida, Symposiachrus trivirgatus, 
Lalage tricolor, Calamanthus campestris, Epthianura albifrons, Parepthianura 
tricolor, Aurepthianura aurifrons, Conopoderas australis, Gisticola exilis, Chthoni- 
cola sagittata, Acanthiza nana, A. pusilla, A. lineata, A. ewingii, A. inornata, 
Acanthornis magnus, Oeobasileus chrysorrhous, G. reguloides, N eosericornis 
lathami, Sericornis magnirostris, Malurus cyaneus, Hallornis cyanotus, Ryania 
melanocephala, Campbellornis personatus, Austrartamus melanops, Colluricincla 
harmonica, Eopsaltria australis, Neositta chrysoptera, Zosterops gouldi, Z. lateralis, 
Cyrtostomus frenatus, Melithreptus atricapillus, Cissomela nigra, Acanthorhynchus 
tenuirostris, Gliciphila melanops, Paraptilotis chrysops, Nesoptilotis leucotis, 
Lophoptilotis leadbeateri, Lichenostomus ornatus, Ptilotula penicillata, Meli- 
ornis novcehollandice, jEgintha temporalis, Neochmia phaeton and Pardalotus 
punctatus.” 
In 1912 {Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 17), I concluded : “ Whether Cuculus 
plagosus should be considered a subspecies of Cuculus lucidus or not is a question 
I am at the moment unable to answer. At present I recognise three subspecies 
of C. plagosus as inhabiting Australia. At various times G. lucidus has be^n 
recorded from Tasmania, but Tasmanian specimens I have examined prove 
to belong to C. plagosus, but differ from the typical New South Wales form in 
having a much brighter bronze-green upper coloration showing green on the 
head, therein approaching C. lucidus ; but still the purple is evident, which 
is entirely missing in C. lucidus. The bill is, moreover, the bill of C. plagosus, 
not of C. lucidus. The barring on the under-surface is also much more close. 
For this form I propose the name of Ghrysococcyx plagosus tasmanicus. . . . 
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