410 
CUCULID2E. 
Cacomantis merulinus (Scop.). 
Distr .—Philippines to Lesser Sunda Islands. 
Cacomantis merulinus merulinus (Scop.). (19-268.) 
Cuculus merulinus Scopoli, Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. pt. 2, 
p. 89, 1786: Antigua, Panay, Philippine Islands. 
Cuculus Jlavus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 421,1788 : Panay. 
Cuculus lanceolatus Muller, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volk. p. 178,1843 : Java. 
Cacomantis horneensis Shelley, Cat. Birds, vol. xix. p. 268, 1891, as synonym 
ex Bonaparte, Ateneo ltaliano, vol. ii. no. 8,p. 121, May 1854 : n. n. 
Cacomantis dysonymus Heine, Journ. f. Orn. 1863, p.352: Borneo, Java, 
Sumatra. 
Distr .—Philippine Islands ; Celebes. Extra-lanital. 
Cacomantis merulinus threnodes C. & H. 
Cacomantis threnodes Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. pt. 4, p. 19, 
1864: Malacca. 
Cacomantis merulinus subpallidus Oberholser, Smith. Misc. Coll. vol. lx. no. 7, 
p. 5, 1912 : Nias, W. Sumatra. 
Distr. —Greater Sunda Islands? Extra-limital. 
Cacomantis pyrrophanus (V.)*. 
Distr . —Australia (E. and N.), Solomon, Fiji, New Guinea, 
and Western Islands. 
Cacomantis pyrrophanus pyrrophanus (V.). (19-273.) 
Cuculus pyrrophanus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. viii. p. 234, 
March loth, 1817: Nouvelle Hollande=New South Wales. (Fig. 
Gould, iv. pL 87; Mathews, vii. pi. 352.) 
Cuculus variolosus VigorB «fc Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. p. 300, 
(Feb. 17th) 1827 : Parramatta, New South Wales. 
Cuculus insperatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 19, April 1845: New 
South Wales. 
(Cuculus) viridirufus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 103, June 1850: as 
synonym of insperatus Gould, 1845. 
Distr .—South Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. 
Cacomantis pyrrophanus dumetorum (Gould). 
Cuculus dumetorum Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 19, April 1845: 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Cuculus brisbanensis Diggles, Trans. Philos. Soc. Queensland, p. 12, 1876 : 
Norman’s Creek, Brisbane, Queensland. 
Cacomantis lineatus Dodd, Emu, vol. xii. p. 165, Jan. 1st, 1913 : Nelson, North 
Queensland. 
Cuculus wesUcoadia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 190, March 20th, 
1913: Westwood, Queensland. 
* Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. xxxii. pp. 165-174, 1925 ; Mathews, ib. vol. xxxiii. 
pp. 53-54, 1926. 
