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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW RACE OF THE MANGROVE CUCKOO, FROM 



GRENADA AND THE GRENADINES. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



In his paper, Birds of the Southern Lesser Antilles,* Austin 

 H. Clark referred the mangrove cuckoo of Grenada and the 

 Grenadines to the continental Coccyzus minor minor. This was 

 done, however, without a specimen from the mainland for com 

 parison. Upon recently comparing the Grenadine bird with 

 three skins in my collection from Costa Rica, I find that it can 

 not be referred to true C. minor minor if the Costa Rican speci 

 mens represent that form (as I think they do), and as it cer 

 tainly can not go with either C. minor vincentis Clark, of St. 

 Vincent and St. Lucia, or C. minor dominicse, Shelly, of Domin 

 ica, I propose to call it, 



Coccyzus minor grenadensis subsp. nov. 



Type. From Union Island (one of the Grenadines) southern Lesser 

 Antilles, adult c?, No. 12,978, coll. of E. A. & O. Bangs. Collected April 9, 

 1904, by Austin H. Clark. 



Characters. Size large and bill long and heavy as compared with C. minor 

 minor of the mainland, C. minor maynardi of Florida and the Bahamas, or 

 C. minor nesiotes of the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles ; 

 slightly smaller, with somewhat smaller bill than either of the other two 

 forms of the southern Lesser Antilles, C. minor dominictc of Dominica and 

 C. minor vincentis of St. Vincent and St. Lucia. 



Colors very pale, throat and breast usually dull white, with sides of neck 

 grayish ; belly and sides buff. Much paler than either dominicse, or vin 

 centis and in color not unlike maynardi. 



Geographic distribution. Grenada and the Grenadines, southern Lesser 

 Antilles. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



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* Proc. Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 263-266, Oct., 1905 ; see also in this 

 connection, J. N. Riley, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Vol. 47, part 2, No. 1485, Nor. 8, 1904. 



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