544 CUCULIDA. 
Hab. Panama, R. Atrato (Wood?).—Souta America generally, from Colombia? to 
Peru, Guiana, Brazil, and La Plata ¢. 
The name of this Crotophaga is included in Cassin’s list of birds collected by 
Lieut. Michler’s party during their exploration of the Isthmus of Darien, but we have 
no other evidence of its occurrence elsewhere within our boundaries. It has been 
recorded from other parts of Colombia by Salmon and others, and its range spreads 
thence over the valley of the Amazons and to Guiana and southwards throughout 
Brazil to the valley of the La Plata. 
In general colour Crotophaga major is a much brighter bird than either of its sombre 
congeners, being of a shiny steel-blue with greenish edgings to the feathers. It is, 
too, a much larger bird. 
In habits it resembles C. ani and C. sulcirostris, which are described more at length 
below. 
The iris, according to Prince Wied, is light green, with a narrow yellow ring round 
the pupil. 
2. Crotophaga ani.” 
Crotophaga ani, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 154°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 301°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1864, p. 366°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 211%; Ibis, 1889, p. 372’; 1890, p. 88°; 
Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vill. p. 577"; Cory, Birds W. Indies, p. 102°; Shelley, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 429°. 
Nigra, plumis omnibus corporis anticis, cervicis et capitis aneo-nigro limbatis; rostri culmine acuto elevato 
regulariter arcuato, lateribus glabris; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota circa 13-0, ale 5-7, caudee rectr. 
med. 7:0, rectr. lat. 6-0, rostri a rictu 1°16, tarsi 1:5. (Descr. maris ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Q@ mari similis. 
Hab. Norta America, Florida &c.—MeExico, Holbox I., Cozumel I. (G. F. Gaumer ® *) ; 
Honpuras, Ruatan I. (G. &. Gawmer®); Panama, Mina de Chorcha (Arcé +), Lion 
Hill (M‘Leannan? *), Obispo (O. S.).—Soutn America, from Colombia to Brazil 9 ; 
ANTILLES generally °. 
Though the range of Crotophaga ani is general in the Antilles and over a large 
portion of the South-American continent, it is quite partial in Central America and 
confined to the islands of Holbox and Cozumel off the coast of Yucatan and Ruatan in 
the Bay of Honduras. It is also found on the Isthmus of Panama as far westward as 
the district of Chiriqui. All through the rest of Mexico and Central America 
C. sulcirostris takes its place. It occurs sparingly in Southern Florida, and has been 
recorded from various places in the South-eastern States of America. 
The familiar habits of this bird have been frequently described, and the notes of 
Gosse, Newton, and others give a good account of them. Several birds live together 
in small flocks in open savanas and pastures, and are usually to be seen amongst herds 
of cattle, from which they pick the ticks which infest them. ‘heir flight is a laboured 
