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and northern Brazil, southward to Peru, Bolivia and south-central 

 Brazil. 



fao: Dutch Guiana 2; British Guiana i; Brazil (Amazonia) i; 

 Colombia 3 ; Venezuela 1 1 ; Peru 2. 



Tapera naevia excellens (Sclater). NORTHERN STRIPED CUCKOO. 



Diplopterus excellens SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1857 (Jan. 12, 1858) p. 229 



(southern Mexico). 

 Diplopterus ncevius SALVIN and GODMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, p. 540, 



part. 

 Tapera ncevius excellens RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, 



p. 67 (cut, pi. VII). 



Tapera ncevia excellens STONE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1918, p. 258 

 (Gatun, Panama Canal Zone) . 



Range: Southern Mexico to Panama. 



6: Nicaragua i ; Mexico i ; Guatemala i ; Costa Rica i, and Panama 



2. 



Tapera naevia chochi ( Vieillot}* SOUTHERN STRIPED CUCKOO. 



Coccyzus chochi VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VIII, 1817, p. 272 (Paraguay). 



Coccyzus cherriri VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VIII, p. 273 (Paraguay). 



Diplopterus nonius SCLATER and HUDSON, Argentine Orn., II, 1889, p. 35 (Ar- 

 gentina); SHELLEY, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 423, part (southern 

 Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina); CHUBB, Ibis, 1910, p. 272 (Para- 

 guay). 



Tapera naevia chochi BANGS and PENARD, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, No. a, 

 1918, p. 50 (form revived, with range including Paraguay, Uruguay and 

 southern Brazil). 



Range: Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil and northern Ar- 

 gentina. 



Genus DROMOCOCCYX Maximilian. 



Dromococcyx Maximilian (Wied), Beitr. Naturg. Bras., IV, 1832, p. 351 (Type 

 Macropus phasianellus Spix). 



*Dromococcyx phasianellus (Spix). PHEASANT CUCKOO. 



Macropus phasianellus SPIX, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 53, pi. 42 (Forests of Rio 

 Tonatine, Amazon Valley, Brazil). 



Geophilus jasijatere BERTONI, Aves. Nuev. Paraguay, 1901, p. 43 b (Paraguay 

 and Missiones, Argentina). 



Tapera ncevia chochi (VIEILLOT): Differs from T. n. ncevia in being larger and 

 browner with upper parts paler. Wing, 110-114; exposed culmen 15-16.5 mm. As 

 noted by Bangs and Penard, both ncevia and chochi differ from the Central American 

 form, T. n. excellens, in their smaller bills, besides other characters. 



b Cf. Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 1908, p. 6xi. 



