549 OUCULIDE. 
Two closely allied species constitute the genus, of which D. phasianellus has a wide 
range and occurs throughout Central America; the other, D. pavoninus, is found in 
Guiana and some of the adjoining districts. 
1. Dromococcyx phasianellus. 
Macropus phasianellus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 53, t. 42 (1824) ’. 
Dromococcyx phasianellus, Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 3537; Cab. J.f. Orn. 1862, p. 171°; Salv. Ibis, 1868, 
p- 486‘; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 361°; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239°; Boucard, P.Z.S. 
p- 4557; Zeledon, An Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 123°; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xix. p. 426°. 
Dromococcyx mexicana, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 957°. 
Dromococcyx mexicanus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 808"; 1859, p. 868”; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 
p. 183%°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 300". 
Dromococcyx rufigularis, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 233". 
Supra saturate fuscus, interscapulii plumis stricte rufo marginatis, tectricibus supracaudalibus elongatis macula 
parva albida terminatis, capitis et cervicis lateribus pileo concoloribus, stria postoculari ad cervicem 
utrinque producta et corpore subtus albis, gutture et pectore nigro guttatis; alis fuscis, tectricibus 
omnibus fulvo limbatis ; cauda fusca, infra griseo tincta, rectricibus omnibus (mediis exceptis) albo termi- 
natis et fascia subterminali nigra notatis; rostro corneo, mandibula pallida; pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 
circa 15:0, ale 6°6, caude rectr. med. 8°5, rectr. lat. 4:7, rostri a rectu 1°17, tarsi 1-4. (Descr. maris ex 
Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
2 mari similis. 
Juv. gutture toto et stria postoculari lete fulvis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé™), Jalapa (de Oca 12), Potrero, Santa Efigenia, Cacoprieto 
(Sumichrast ®), N. Yucatan’, Buctzotz, Izamal (G. Ff. Gaumer); GuaTEMALA 
(Van Patten), Coban, Cahabon™, Choctum, Mirandilla (0. S. &d & D. G.); 
SaLvaDor, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. Richardson) ; Costa Rica (v. Frantzius* >), 
Santa Maria de Dota (Zeledon®); Panama, Lion Hill (l/‘Leannan 4), Paraiso 
(A. Hughes)—Sovura America, from Colombia to South Brazil 9°. 
Though as widely distributed as Diplopterus nevius, this Cuckoo is much less known 
owing doubtless to its greater rarity, our own experience respecting it being confined 
to the capture of a few specimens by our hunters at rare intervals. We have no notes 
on its habits. Like D. ne@vius it appears to be a bird of the lowlands, but is found as 
high as 4000 feet in the mountains of Vera Cruz, and also in Vera Paz in Guatemala. 
Though the Mexican bird was separated by Bonaparte from that of South America 
under the name of Dromococcyx mexicana ', no differential characters were given, and 
it now appears that practically none exist between them. In 1867 Lawrence described 
a bird sent from Guatemala by Van Patten, “from a high mountian region,” as Dromo- 
coccyx rufigularis'®. We have similar birds from Paraiso Station on the Panama 
Railway Line, which we have no hesitation in pronouncing to be young examples 
of D. phasianellus, and thus place Lawrence’s name as a synonym of this bird, a 
position long ago assigned it by Salvin. 
