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Cacomantispallidus, Nortli, ISTests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 243 (1889). 
Cuculuspallidus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., Vol. XIX., p. 261 (1891). 
One immature female, Ilermannburg. The upper surface is mottled with 
rufous and the feathers of the lower back and rump tipped with bully-white; 
under surface pale grey, crossed by numerous indistinct dusky barrings. Total 
length, 12-6 inches; wing, 7’4 inches; tail, 6'7 inches; tarsus, 0'78 inches. 
[First seen near Oodnadatta and afterwards on the Finke Kiver. They were 
not by any means plentiful, only two of each sex being met with throughout the 
trip. Thei’e is little doubt that Keartland’s Honey-eater is here burdened with the 
trouble of rearing the young cuckoos, as a female shot was seen carefully inspecting 
a nest almost ready for eggs.] 
No. 16. Misocalius palliolatus, Latham. Black-eared Cuckoo. 
Cuculus palliolatus, Lath., Ind. Orn. Supph, p. xxx. (1801). 
Chalcites osculans, Gould, Bds. Austr., fob, Vol. IV., pi. 88 (1848). 
ATesocallus palliolatus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 2nd series, 
p. 1094 (1886). 
Misocalius palliolatus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., Vol. XIX., p. 279 
(1891). 
One adult male, Petermann Creek, similar to examples obtained in New South 
Wales. Specimens from north-western Australia are very much duller in colour. 
An egg of a Cuckoo since received by Mr. Keartland from Mr. E. C. Cowle, of 
Central Australia, is probably referable to this species. It was brought in by a 
blackfellow, together with the eggs of an Acanthiza, in whose nest it was found, 
and from a locality where the Black-eared Cuckoos are plentiful. In fact, the egg 
of M. palliolatus is the only one belonging to any of the Cuckoos found in Central 
Australia that we are unacquainted with, and the specimen forwarded differs in 
colour and size from any Cuckoo’s egg I had previously seen. It is a compressed 
ellipse in shape, and of a uniform chocolate-brown in colour. Length, 0-83 inch 
X 0’58 inch. 
No. 17. Lamprococcyx basalis, ILorsfield. Rufou.s-tailed Bronze Cuckoo. 
Cuculus basalis, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc., Vol. XIII., p. 179 (1821). 
