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Genus EUDYNAMIS, Vigors and Horsficld. 
EUDYNAMIS CYANOCEPHALA, Latham. 
(EJlindersi, Gould.) 
Australian Koel. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 387, p. 632. 
“ Mr. Geo. Masters obtained an egg of this species at Gayndah, 
Queensland, on the 25th of November 1870. Having shot at a 
female and broken her wing, while pursuing her on the ground the 
egg was dropped. It is a pointed oval in form, of a dull white 
minutely spotted with light brown, together with a few faint 
blotches here and there of purplish-brown, the smaller end being 
entirely devoid of markings. Whether this is the normal colour 
of the egg is yet to be proved, as the egg being dropped by the bird 
when wounded and the markings very faint, it is probable that it 
may not have been quite ready for laying. Long diameter 1 '4 
inch, short diameter 1 '05 inch. A photograph of this egg sent 
by Dr. Geo. Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney, was exhibited at the June 
meeting of the Zoological Society of London, 1873, see P.Z.S., p. 
519.” (P.L.S., A.S.TF., Yol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 554.) 
Hal. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
Genus CENTROPUS, Illiger. 
CENTROPUS PIIASIANUS, Latham. 
Pheasant-Coucal. 
Gould, Handlk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 388, p. 634. 
This bird is found in the dense coastal brushes, and is very 
plentiful on the Herbert River, in Queensland, and the scrubby 
grass-lands of the Richmond and Clarence Rivers districts of 
