LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Order CUCULIFORMES. 
Family CO'CULID.-E. 
COLXVIIL Genus CUCULUS. 
Cuculus Linne, Svst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 110, Jan. 1st, 1758. Type (by tautonymy) .* Cuculus canorus Linn£. 
Nicoclarius Bonaparte, Ateneo Italinno, Vol. 2, No. 8, p. 121 (Consp. Volucrum Zygod., p. 6), May (before June5th) 
1854. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, p. 97, 1855) : Cuculus optatus Gould. 
319. CUCULUS OPTATUS. ORIENTAL CUCKOO. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 84 (pfc. xxi.), Dec, 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 3, pi. 349 w 
26th, 1918. 
Cuculus optatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.), 1845, p. 18, April: Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Cuculus fucatus Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Vol. X., p. 136, 1848 ( Cf. 2nd ed., v. 244, 1858): Sooloo Islands. 
Cuculus tenuirostris Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., p. 244, 1858, (pref. May 10th): Sooloo Islands. 
Not Cuculus tenuirostris Lesson, Traits d'Orn., livr. 2, p. 146, May 8th, 1830. 
Cuculus horsficldi Moore, in Horsfield and Moore's Cat. Birds Mus. E. India Comp., Vol. II., p. 703,1857 (? 1858)• 
Java. 
Cuculus cantor " Ill." Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. IV., p. 34, (after Dec. 30tli, 1S63,) 1864. Nom. nu& 
? Cuculus bubu Dybowski, Journ. fiir Omitli., 1868, p. 336, Sept. Nom. nud. 
Cuculus peninsulcc Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 227, Dec. 16th, 1885 : Commander Islands. 
7 Cuculus optatus belli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 83, May 25th, 1910 : Lord Howe I. 
Distribution. Tropical northern Australia and New South Wales. 
CCLXIX. Genus HETEROSCENES. 
Heteroscenes Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. IV., p. 26, (after Dec. 30th, 1863) 1864. Type(bymonotypy): 
Columba pallida Latliam. 
320. HETEROSCENES PALLIDUS. PALLID CUCKOO. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 85 (pt. xxv.), Dec. 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 3, pi. 350, Au?. 
26th, 1918. 
Columba pallida Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. lx., after May 1 SOI, based on Watling drawing No. 226: 
New South Wales. 
Cuculus variegatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 224, March 15th, 1817: New South Wales. 
Not Cuculus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. Faun. Insub., pt. 2, p. 89, 1786. 
Cuculus cinereus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 226, March 15th, 1817 : New South Wales. 
Cuculus inornatus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 297, Feb. 17th, 1827: New South 
Wales. 
Cuculus albostrigatus Vigors and Horsfield, ib. : New South Wales. 
Chalcites simplex Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 11th year. No. 48, col. 1138. June 20th, 1844: New South Wales. 
Cf. Menegaux, Art. d'Orn., Lesson, p. 114, 1913. 
Hcteroscenes occidentalis Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. IV., p. 27 note, (after Dec. 30th, 1863) 1864: West 
Australia. 
Hcteroscenes pallidus tasmanicus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 58, April 7th, 1916: Tasmania. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CCLXX. Genus CACOMANTIS. 
Cacomantis S. Muller, Verb. Nat. Gescli. Land en Volkcnk., p. (177, 1843. Tvpe (by subsequent designation, 
balvadon, Orn. Papu e Molucche, pt. i., p. 331, (pref. June loth, 1879) 1880): Cuculus flavus Linn£. 
Oymnopue Blyth,-Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XII., p. 94, Aug. 1st, 1843. Tvpe (by monotvpv); Cuculus nyjtr 
Lath am = <7. passerinus Vahl. w . r. / 
Not Gymnopus Dumeril ot Bibron (Rorot's Suite u Buffon) Erpet., Vol. II., p. 472, May 1835 
Polyphagia^ Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XII., pt. i., p. 244, 1843. Type (by original designation): Cuculus 
Not Polyphasia Stephens, Uiusfcr. Lepid., 1829. 
Ololygon Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. IV., p. 20, note, (after Dec. 30th, 1863) 1864. Type (by monotvpv): 
C. passermus Vahl. ' v 
