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CUCULID.E. 
Genus OWENAVIS Mathews. 
Owenavis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 3, Jan. 2nd, 1912. 
Type (by original designation) : Chalcites osculans Gould. 
Misocalius auctorum: not Cabanis & Heine, Mas. Ornith. Hein. pt. 4, p. 16, 
1864. 
Owenavis osculans (Gould). 
Distr, —Australia and New Guinea. 
Owenavis osculans osculans (Gould). (19-279.) 
Chalcites osculans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1847, p. 32, Apr. 27th: 
New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 88.) 
Misocalus palliolatns auctorum : not C. imlliolatus Latham, Index Ornith. 
Suppl. p. xxx, 1801. 
Distr. —Eastern Australia. 
Owenavis osculans rogersi Mathews. 
Owenavis osculans rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 13, 
Jan. 2nd, 1912: Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. (Fig. 
Math. vii. pi. 354.) 
Distr. —Western Australia. 
Genus CHALCITES Lesson. 
Chalcites Lesson, Trait6 d’Orn. 2e livr. p. 152, May 8th, 1830. Type 
(by tautonymy) : C. chalcites=C. hasalis Horsfield. 
Neochalcites Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 7, Jan. 2nd, 1912. Type (by 
original designation): Chrysococcyx basalis mellori Mathews. 
Chalcites basalis (Horsfield). 
Distr. —Australia generally ; not Tasmania. Celebes and Java. 
[Chalcites basalis basalis (Horsfield). (19-294.) 
Cuculus hasalis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. pt. 1, 
p. 179, May 1821: Java. 
P Cuculus malayanus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 286, 1821 : 
Malay. 
Cuculus chalcites Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois. vol. i. livr. 17e, 
pi. 102. fig. 2, Dec. 1821 : “Java.” 
Distr .—Java to New Guinea, Celebes, Flores, Timor, Malay 
Peninsula, Philippines. Extra-limital.] 
Chalcites basalis modesta (Digglcs). 
Lamprococcyx modesta Higgles, Trans. Phil. Soc. Queensl. 1876, 
p. 12: Norman Creek, .Brisbane, Queensland. (Fig. Gould, iv. 
pi. 89 (upper & lower figs.) ; Math. vii. pi. 355.) 
Chrysococcyx basalis mellori Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 14, Jan. 2nd, 
1912: Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia. 
Chrysococcyx basalis icyndhami Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 14, Jan. 2nd, 
1912 : Point Torment, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —Australia. 
