. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . 1897, which were ultimately sent tothe Zoological Society, London, wherethey formed the subject matter of a paperby Mr. Frank E. Beddard, , ,Prosector to the Society, entitled On theAnatomy of an Australian Cuckoo. fAfter the breeding season is over, andusually in the early summer months, the Channel-billed Cuckoo, appears towanderaway from itsusual haunts, the northern coastal districts, and specimens have been received by tlie Trusteesof the Australian Museum from the inland parts of the northern half of the State
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . 1897, which were ultimately sent tothe Zoological Society, London, wherethey formed the subject matter of a paperby Mr. Frank E. Beddard, , ,Prosector to the Society, entitled On theAnatomy of an Australian Cuckoo. fAfter the breeding season is over, andusually in the early summer months, the Channel-billed Cuckoo, appears towanderaway from itsusual haunts, the northern coastal districts, and specimens have been received by tlie Trusteesof the Australian Museum from the inland parts of the northern half of the State, and whichmay be recognised as the normal southern range of this species, although it has wandered as farsouth as Tasmania. Mr. George Masters informs me that he used to shoot these birds in theFig trees, in the garden of the late Sir William Macleay, at Elizabeth Bay, Port Jackson,and Caley obtained the specimen referred to by Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield in the Transactionsof the Lmnean Society of London, near Parramatta. A specimen was received in the flesh at. CHANNEL-HILLKD CUrKOO. Orn. Pap. et. Molucc, pt. ii., p. 373 (ibSo). t Proc. ZooJ. Soc, 1898, p. 44. scvTiiKois. 3:5 the Australian Museum shot on the 12th December, , near the Maajuarie River, aboutone hundred miles below Dubbo. Another was shot at , two hundred and thirty mileswest of Sydney, while in the act of eating whole apricots. Fruits and berries of various kinds form the staple article of diet, which is sometimesvaried with insects. .A stomach of one examined contained the seeds of a Fiu: and the heads,les;s and elytra of beetles, them beintj those of a species of AiwploL^iiatliin. It is impossible to give any idea of the loud, harsh and discordant notes of this species,which may be frequently heard during the night as well as in tne daytime, but when once heardthey cannot be confounded with those of any other species. Mr. G. A. Heartland, who was a member of the Calvert Exploring E.
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