_Cuculus lucidus_, Gmel. Edit. of Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 421.—Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 215.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. ix. p. 126. pl. 26.—Temm. Pl. Col. 102. fig. 1.—Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 301.—Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. viii. p. 233.—Ib. Ency. Méth., tom. iii. p. 1335. pl. 219. fig. 1. _Shining Cuckoo_, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 528. pl. 23.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 299. pl. lvi. _Chalcites lucidus_, Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 153. _Dj̏u-reet_, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. _Golden or Bronze Cuckoo_ of the Colonists. This species is very widely dispersed, being an inhabitant of every part of the Australian continent and Van Diemen’s Land. In the latter country it is strictly migratory, arriving in September and departing again in January. If it be not so truly migratory in New South Wales, the great mass certainly retire in winter to the northward, where insect food is more abundant. I have, however, seen it in the Botanic Garden at Sydney in the month of March. Its food consists of insects of various orders, the stomachs of those examined containing the remains of _Hymenoptera_, _Coleoptera_, and caterpillars. While searching for food, its motions, although very active, are characterized by a remarkable degree of quietude, the bird leaping about from branch to branch in the gentlest manner possible, picking an insect here and there, and prying for others among the leaves and the crevices of the bark with the most scrutinizing care. Its flight is rather quick and undulating, and when passing from one tree to another on a sunny day, the brilliant green colouring of the male shows very beautifully. Like the true Cuckoos, it always deposits its single egg in the nest of another bird: in Van Diemen’s Land those of the _Malurus longicaudus_ and _Acanthiza Diemenensis_ are generally selected; in New South Wales the _Malurus cyaneus_ and the _Acanthiza chysorrhæa_ are among others the foster-parents; in Western Australia the nests of the various kinds of Honey-eaters, and the _Malurus splendens_, are resorted to; and it is a remarkable fact, that the egg is mostly deposited in a domed nest, with a very small hole for an entrance. The stomach is capacious, membranous, and slightly lined with hair. Its note is a mournful whistle, very like that usually employed to call a dog. The egg is of a clear olive-brown, somewhat paler at the smaller end, about eleven-sixteenths of an inch long by half an inch in breadth.