SUPPLEMENT—BIRDS OF NORFOLK & LORD HOWE ISLANDS, ETC. 
Lamprococoyx Tusscitus. RXJFOXJS-BREASTED BRONZE CUCKOO. 
Egg. Uniform dull green, darker than the egg of plagosus. 19 mm. by 13. This is the darkest- 
coloured egg of the species of Bronze Cuckoo. The egg of plagosus is lighter, while the egg 
of minutdlus is lighter than that of plagosus. They are all of the same shape and 
measurements. 
Breeding-season. October and November. 
The above information has been supplied to me in a letter from Mr. H. Greensill 
Barnard. We are now conversant with the eggs of all the Cuckoos on the 
Australian List except 
Gacomantis castaneiventris, Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo. 
Urodynamis taitensis. LONG-TAILED CUCKOO. 
Mathews, ante, p. 31. 
Eudynamis taitensis Buller, Birds New Zealand, 2nd ed., Vol. I., p. 127, pi. 14, 1888. 
The egg is placed in the nest of Myiomoira macrocephala Yellow-breasted Tit. 
Egg. White, tinted cream or creamy-pink, freely spotted and streaked with purplish-brown, and 
having underlying markings of grey ; the markings of both colours being larger and more 
numerous at the larger end. Shape ovoido-elliptical; dimensions 24 by 17.5 mm.; 23.5 
by 17 ; 23 by 17.5 ; 22.75 by 17.5. Average, 23.31 mm. by 17.37 (Stead). 
Breeding-season. November and December or even January. 
Guculus optatus. ORIENTAL CUCKOO. 
Cuculus optatus Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pt. 3, p. 287, August 26th, 1918; Baker, 
Fauna, Brit. Ind. Birds, Vol. IV., p. 140, July, 1927. 
Egg. Pure white, very sparsely speckled with tiny spots of black. Average measurements: 21 mm. 
by 13*6 (max. 25*4 by i6*4 ; min. 19*7 by 13*0). 
Breeding-season. May and June (between 5,000 and 10,000 feet high, in the north-western 
boundaries of Kashmir to the extreme east of the Himalayas). 
Psephotellus chrysopterygius . THE GOLDEN-WINGED PARROT. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XXII., pt. ii., p. 98, Oct. 1922. 
Nest. A hole in a termites’ nest. [This white ants’ nest was spire-shaped, six feet high and the 
top diameter was six inches.] The entrance to the nest was two feet six inches from the 
ground and circular in shape, I f inches by li. The egg-chamber measured seven inches in 
diameter by six deep. The eggs are laid on the soft broken-up termitarium material. 
Clutch. Four to six. Pure white, almost round, and with little gloss. 81 to 84 mm. by 88 to 73 ; 
average, 83 mm. by 71*4. 
Breeding-season. April and May (Coen District, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland). 
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