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CUCULIDiE. 
Genus LAMPEOCOCCYX, Cabanis ct Heine. 
LAMPROCOCCYX PLAGOSUS, Latham. 
Bronze Cuckoo. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust. Vol. i., sp. 383, p. 623. 
The Bronze Cuckoo is universally found over the whole of 
Australia and Tasmania, depositing its single egg in any convenient 
nest, principally in those that are dome-shaped. I have taken 
most of the eggs of this species from the nests of Geobasileus 
chrysorrhoea. The eggs are in form elongated ovals, being rounded 
and nearly equal in size at both ends, varying in colour from a 
uniform light ashy-grey to a rich dark olive-brown or bronze ; 
four average specimens, taken from the nests of A. lineata, G. 
chrysorrhoea, G. reguloides, and jE. temporalis, are as follows :— 
length (A) 073 xO\51 inch ; (B) 072 x 0 - 5 inch; (C) 072 x 052 
inch ; (D) 0'73 x 052 inch. 
Dr. Ramsay paid particular attention to the working out 
of this and the following species, by procuring the eggs of the 
Cuckoo’s and placing them in nests convenient for observation, 
and when hatched obtaining the young birds in all the various 
stages of plumage, from the nestling upwards, thus enabling him 
to correctly identify the species to which the eggs belonged, and 
published the result of his labours in a series of interesting papers 
in the Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, (see P.Z.S., 1865, p. 460, and 
P.Z.S., 1869, p. 359), and also supplied Mr. Gould with the eggs 
and birds of both species at the same time. 
A coloured plate of the eggs of L. plagosus, L. basalis, Caconiantis 
2 )aUidus, and C. flabellifonnis, also of those birds which are 
usually the foster-parents of the two former species in the 
neighbourhood of Sydney is given in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1869 
see pi. xxvii., p. 358. Among the latter are the eggs of Acantliiza 
lineata, A. pusilla, A. nan", Geobasileus reguloides, Sericornis 
brevirostris, and Stipiturus malachurus. 
Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
