Order CVCULIF0RME8. 
No. 411. 
Family CUCULIDM 
LAMPROCOCCYX MINUTILLUS. 
LITTLE BRONZE CUCKOO. 
(Plate 358. Lower figure.) 
Ckrysococcyx MINUTILLUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1859, p. 128 ; Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Ckrysococcyx minutillus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1859, p. 128 ; id., Birds Austr. 
Suppl. pi. 56, 1st Sept., 1859 ; Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pp. 22, 40, 1912 ; 
id., Nov. Zool. Vol. XVIII., p. 295, 1912 ; Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 153, 1913. 
Lamprococcyx minutillus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. IV., p. 15, note 1862 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 625, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 192, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. IL, Vol. IL, p. 170, 1887 (N.W.A.). 
ChalcocoGcyx malayanus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 298, 1891 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 584, 1899 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 58, 1908 ; id.. Emu, Vol. IX., p. 59, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; H. L. White, ih., Vol. XV., 
p. 61, 1915. 
Lamprococcyx malayanus North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 27, 1911. 
Ckrysococcyx minutillus perplexus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 38, 1912 : Parry’s 
Creek, North-west Australia. 
Lamprococcyx minutillus minutillus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 158, 1913. 
Lamprococcyx minutillus perplexus Mathews, ib. 
Ckrysococcyx minutillus melvillensis Zeitz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 14, 1914 : 
Melville Island. 
Ckalcococcyx minutillus Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 43, 1914 (N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., 
Vol. XV. p. 61, 1915 ; id., ib., Vol XVI., p. 220, 1917 (N.T.). 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory. ^ 
Adult male. General colour above glossy bronze-green including the entire back, wings 
and tail, darker and inclining to steel-blue on the head ; flight-quiUs pale brown on 
the inner- webs, which are white at the base and more or less tinged with buff ; central 
tail-feathers like the back, with a slight indication of a dark subterminal band which 
is well pronounced on the next three pairs, and are rufous on the inner-webs with a 
semicircular spot of white at the tips, the outermost pair fringed and more or less 
indented with white on the outer-w^ebs, the inner-webs broadly barred with dark 
browm and white, an obsolete ripphng of dark bars may be observed on the bronze- 
green pattern of the tail ; lores and feathers above and below the eye white ; throat 
and entire under-surface including the under wing-coverts white barred with brown. 
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