532 CUCULID.E. 
Coccyzusa gracilis, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 356°. 
Piaya gracilis, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 366". 
Supra castanea, capite summo ad frontem rufescentiore, uropygio et cauda saturatioribus: subtus gutture toto 
rufescente, abdomine griseo, ventre imo, tectricibus subalaribus et: tibiis griseo-nigricantibus ; caude rectri- 
cibus omnibus ad apicem fusco-nigricantibus et albo terminatis, rectricibus lateralibus subtus fere omnino 
nigris usque ad maculam albam terminalem vix castaneo tinctis, sed supra castaneis usque ad fasciam 
subterminalem nigram; rostro flavido, maxille basi fusca; pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota circa 10-0, 
ale 3:9, caude rectr. med. 6:0, rectr. lat. 3:0, rostri a rictu 0°85, tarsi 1:1. (Descr. maris ex Lion 
Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan® ').—Sovrn America, from Colombia and 
Ecuador }° to Guiana, Amazons Valley, and Brazil 7. 
This Cuckoo is a miniature form of P. cayana, the tints and distribution of the 
colours of its plumage being very similar. It has a wide range over the northern 
parts of the South-American continent from Guiana and the mouth of the Amazons 
to Western Ecuador. It just enters our fauna, being not uncommon on the Isthmus 
of Panama, where M‘Leannan met with it and sent specimens to Lawrence and to 
ourselves, The bird of Western Ecuador was separated by Heine as Coccyzusa 
gracilis 1°, but there appears to be no difference of any importance between it and 
birds from further east. 
Of the habits of P. minuta little is recorded. Mr. Layard ® shot one about ten miles 
from Para in a garden. It crept through the bushes and trees just like a Colius 
(a bird with which he was familiar in South Africa), always, on his approach, flying 
out on the opposite side of the bush. Its stomach contained spiders and caterpillars. 
The iris in life is red. 
Subfam. VEOMORPHINA. 
Of the four genera contained in this subfamily, Carpococcyx of Borneo and Sumatra 
has a general resemblance to Neomorphus, but differs in some important particulars. 
Geococcyx is a very isolated form peculiar to Mexico and the northern frontier States 
and to the northern section of Central America; Morococcyx is another isolated form. 
All these birds are of terrestrial habits, though they rest on low trees and scrub-wood. 
The wings are short, the primaries hardly exceeding the secondaries in length, and the 
whole wing when closed fitting close to the body; the tail is long, rounded, and 
consists of ten wide feathers; the tarsi are long, and the distal ends of the tibie clothed 
with short feathers. 
NEOMORPHUS. 
Neomorphus, Gloger, in Froriep’s Notiz. xvi. p. 278 (1827) ; Lawr. Ibis, 1878, pp. 287 et seq.; 
Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 415. 
Cultrides, Pucheran, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 51. 
Of this remarkable genus of Cuckoos five species are now known, but all of them are 
