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CUCULIDiE. 
Cuculus tenuirostri8 Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 244, (pref. May 10th) 
1858: Sooloo Islands. Not Cuculus tenuirostris Lesson, Traits d’Orn livr 2 
p. 146, May 8th, 1830. * ’ * 
Cuculus horsfieldi Moore, in Horafield & Moore’s Cat. Birds Mus. E. Indian 
Comp. vol. ii. p. 703, (on or before June 30th) 1858: Java. 
Cuculus cantor Salvadori, Ornit. Pap. e Mol. vol. i. p. 328, 1880, as synonym of 
optatus , ex “ HI.” Cabauis & Heine, Mus. Hein. vol. iv. p. 34, (after Doc. 30th 
1863) 1864: nom. nud. 
Cnculus peninsulas Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 227, Dec. 16th 
1885; Commander Islands. 
Cucnlus bubu Hnrtort, Die Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 949, Feb. 1912, as synonym 
of optatus Gould, ex Dybowaki, Joum. fiir Om. 1868, p. 336, Sept.: nom. nud. 
Cue ulus optatus belli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xxxvi p 83 
May 25th, 1916 : Lord Howe Island. 
Distr. —Japan, migrating to Tropical Northern Australia and 
New South Wales. 
Cuculus optatus kelungensis Swinhoe. 
Cuculus kelungensis Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 804: Formosa. 
Cuculus waigoui Mathews, Birds Austr. vii. p. 291, 1918: Waigou. (Cf. Nov. 
Zool. vol. xxxii. 1925, p. 155. I do not agree with this. — G. M. M.) 
Distr .— Formosa to New Guinea. 
Cuculus poliocephalus Lath. 
Distr .— Eastern Asia, India, Malay Countries, Mascarene 
Islands to Lesser Sunda Islands. 
[Cuculus poliocephalus poliocephalus Lath. (19-158.) 
Cuculus poliocephalus Latham, Index Ornith. vol. i. p. 214, 1790: 
India. (Fig. Gould, Cent. Himal. pi. 54.) 
Cuculus intermedius Vahl, Skriv. af Nat. Selskabot, Kjobenhavn, vol. iv p 58 
1797: South India. 
Cuculus bartlelti Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, p.452 : Ceylon. 
Cuculus tamsuicus Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 108: Formosa. 
Distr. —India to Formosa. Extra-limital.] 
Cuculus poliocephalus musicus Ljungh. 
Cuculus musicus Ljungh, Kongl. Y r etensk. Acad, nya Handl. vol. xxiv, 
p. 309, pi. 6, 1804: Batavia. 
Cuculus lepidus Miiller, Verhandl. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 236, 1845 • 
Timor. 
Cucnlus intermedius insulindm Hartert, V6g. der pal. Fauna, Heft vii pt 2 
p. 952, Fob. 1912: Borneo. 
Distr. —Borneo, Java, Lombok, Flores, and Timor. 
Cuculus micropterus Gould. 
Cuculus micropterus micropterus Gould. (19 241.) 
Cuculus micropterus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1837, p. 137 : 
Himalaya. 
