Order CUCULIFORMES. 
No. 412. 
Family CUGULIDM. 
LAMPROCOCCYX RUSSATUS. 
EUFOUS-BEEASTED BRONZE CUCKOO. 
(Plate 358. Upper figure.) 
Chrysococcyx russata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, (Lond.), 1868, p. 76 : Cape York, Queens- 
land. 
Chrysococcyx russata Gould, Proc. Zoo. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 76 ; Mathews, Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 22, 1912 ; id,, Nov. Zool., Vcl. XVIII., p. 296, 1912. 
Lamprococcyx minutillus Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 57, 1875 (N.Q.) ; 
Ramsay, ih., Vol. III., p. 255, 1879. 
Chalcites minutillus Castelnau and Ramsay, ih., Vol. I., p. 383, 1877 (N.Q ) ; Ramsay, 
ih., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878. 
Clmlcites russata Ramsay, ih. ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
Lamprococcyx russata Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. III., p. 255, 1879. 
Clmlcites poecilurus Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
CMlcococcyx poecilurus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 299, 1891 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 58, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. X., p. 240, 1910. 
Lamprococcyx malayanus North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. IX., p. 41, 1894 (N.Q.) ; 
id., Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. III., p. 27, 1911. 
Chalcococcyx malayanus Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 584, 1901 ; 
Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, id., Vol. XV., p. 61, 1915. 
Chrysococcyx harnardi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 20, Jan. 2, 1912 : Dawson 
River, Queensland; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p.. 296, 1912. 
Neochalcites russatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 157, 1913. 
Neochalcites harnardi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 157, 1913. 
Chalcococcyx russata MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 163, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface bright bronze-green, including the head, 
back, wings, and tail, with more or less coppery reflections ; head slightly darker than 
the back ; median and greater upper wing-coverts and inner secondary quills 
narrowly edged with rufous, outer edge of wing more or less white, bastard-wing and 
primary coverts uniform brown, flight-quiUs brown on the inner-webs with rufous on 
the basal portion, becoming paler and inclining to wMtish on the imier edges ; upper 
tail-coverts narrowly fringed with rufous, the lateral ones with two blackish spots on 
the outer-web which is fringed with white ; tail, the two central feathers fringed on 
both sides with rufous and a very slightly indicated dark subterminal band, the next 
pair rufous with a small space of bronze-green on the apical portion of the outer web, 
a broad, dark subterminal band, the tip of the inner web tinged with rufous and an 
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