Bibliography for Centropodinae

• Ashby, E. 1915. Notes on Polophilus phasianinus melanurus Gld. (North-western Coucal). South Australian Ornithologist 2: 72
• Baird, R.F. 1985. Avian fossils from Quaternary deposits in 'Green Waterhole Cave', south-eastern South Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 37: 353-370
• Beddard, F.E. 1898. The Structure and Classification of Birds. London : Longmans, Green xx 548 pp.
• Bell, H.L. 1984. Carrying of young in flight by Coucals Centropus spp. Australian Bird Watcher 10: 171 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]
• Berger, A.J. 1960. Some anatomical characters of the Cuculidae and the Musophagidae. Wilson Bulletin 72: 60-104
• Berlioz, J. 1927. [Title unknown]. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 33: 350
• Brookes, J. 1830. A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the remainder of the Anatomical and Zoological Museum of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. London : J. Brookes Pt II pp.
• Brush, A.H. & Witt, H.H. 1983. Intraordinal relationships of the Pelecaniformes and Cuculiformes: electrophoresis of feather keratins. Ibis 125: 181-199
• Cabanis, J. & Heine, F. 1863. Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt. Halberstadt : R. Frantz Part 4 (1) 229 pp. [publication dated as 1862–1863]
• Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp.
• Coates, B.J. 1985. The Birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville. Non-Passerines. Alderley, Qld : Dove Publications Vol. 1 464 pp. 493 pls.
• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.
• Draffan, R.D.W., Garnett, S.T. & Malone, S.J. 1983. Birds of the Torres Strait: an annotated list and biogeographical analysis. The Emu 83: 207-234
• Ford, J. 1987. Taxonomic status of Pheasant Coucal, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo and Red-backed Fairy-wren in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 17: 17-18
• Goodwin, D. in Hall, B.P. (ed.) 1974. Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962–70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions, No. 33. London : British Museum. 10 pls col. pl. map xi 396 pp.
• Gould, J. 1847. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 4(29) 104 pls. [published Dec. 1847, publication dated as 1848]
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• Hindwood, K.A. 1942. Notes on the Coucal. The Emu 41: 249-252 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)]
• Hindwood, K.A. 1954. The distribution of the Coucal (Centropus phasianinus) in Australia. The Emu 54: 1-6
• Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp.
• Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp.
• Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls.
• Mackness, B. 1979. The ecology of the Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus (Latham) in Australia. Sunbird 10: 1-8
• Mason, I.J., McKean, J.L. & Dudzinski, M.L. 1984. Geographical variation in the Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus (Latham) and a description of a new subspecies from Timor. The Emu 84: 1-15
• Mason, I.J. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp.
• Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912]
• Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp.
• Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916]
• Mathews, G.M. 1918–1919. On Pachycephala melanura Gould. Austral Avian Records 3(6): 134-138 [Date published 25 Jun 1918]
• Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385-499 + xii pls 363-370 Appendixes A & B. [Date published 12 June 1919: publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]
• Mathews, G.M. 1922. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, October 11, 1922. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 43: 13-14 [Date published 31 Oct 1922]
• Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.
• Mayr, E. 1937. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXV Notes on New Guinea Birds. II. American Museum Novitates 939: 1-14
• Mayr, E. & Amadon, D. 1951. A classification of recent birds. American Museum Novitates 1496: 1-42
• Mayr, E. & Rand, A.L. 1937. Results of the Archbold Expeditions, 14. Birds of the 1933–1934 Papuan Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 73: 1-248
• Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143
• Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls
• Mills, K. 1987. The Pheasant Coucal in southern New South Wales, and a recent record from the Illawarra. Australian Birds 21: 22-24
• North, A.J. 1912. Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 3 vii 362 pp.
• Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp.
• Pratt, E. 1972. Some answers about Coucal nesting. Sunbird 3: 19-25
• Rand, A.L. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 42 Birds of the 1936–1937 New Guinea expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79: 289-366
• Rand, A.L. & Gilliard, E.T. 1967. Handbook of New Guinea Birds. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson x 612 pp. 53 pls.
• Rich, P.V. & Baird, R.F. 1986. History of the Australian avifauna. Current Ornithology 4: 97-139
• Rich, P.V. & Van Tets, J. 1982. Fossil birds of Australia and New Guinea: their biogeographic, phylogenetic and biostratigraphic input. pp. 235-384 in Rich, P.V. & Thompson, E.M. (eds). The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australasia. Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Offset 759 pp.
• Rowan, M.K. 1983. The Doves, Parrots, Louries and Cuckoos of Southern Africa. London : Croom Helm Ltd 429 pp. 8 pls.
• Shelley, G.E. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae-Cuculidae. London : British Museum Vol. 19 xii 484 pp. 13 pls.
• Sibley, C.G., Ahlquist, J.E. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1988. A classification of living birds of the world based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies. Auk 105: 409-423
• Sibley, C.G. & Ahlquist, J.E. 1990. Phylogeny and Classification of Birds. A Study in Molecular Evolution. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiii 976 pp.
• Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.
• Stanger, M., Clayton, M., Schodde, R., Wombey, J. & Mason, I. 1998. CSIRO List of Australian Verebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing iii 124 pp.
• Stephens, J.F. 1815. In, General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : J. Walker Vol. IX Pt I i 227 pp. pls 1-40.
• Stresemann, E. 1927. Centropus phasianus thierfelderi subsp. nova. Oriental Insects 35: 111-112
• Stresemann, V. & Stresemann, E. 1961. Die handschwingen-mauser der Kuckucke (Cuculidae). Journal of Ornithology 102: 317-353
• Vieillot, L.P. 1819. Toulou. pp. 294–299 in, Nouveau Dictionaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition. Paris : Déterville. 34 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]
• Wetmore, A. 1960. A classification for the birds of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139(11): 1-37
• White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp.
• Wolters, H.E. 1975–1982. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey xx 745 pp.
• Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160.

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