Vol. XX, pp. 53-54 April 18, 1907 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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A NEW RACE OF THE MANGROVE CUCKOO, FROM 

 GRENADA AND THE GRENADINES. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. V^ 



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

 H. Clark referred the mangrove cuckoo of Grenada and the 

 Grenadines to the continental Corn/zus minor minor. This was 

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

 parison. Upon recently cc^mparing the Grenadine l:)ird with 

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

 not be referred to true C. minor ininor 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 dominlccV Shelly, of Domin- 

 ica, I propose to call it, 



Coccyzus minor grenadensis siibsp. nov. 



Titpe. — From Union Island (one of the Grenadines) southerii Lesser' 

 Antilles, adult c?, No. 12,978, coll. of JE. A. & 0. 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 maynardl of Florida and the Bahamas, or 

 C. minor ne.^ioles 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 dominicx 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 mnynardi. 



Geographic distribntion. — Grenada and the Grenadines, southern Lesser 

 Antilles. 



MEASURKMENTS. i 



* 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, Nov. 8, 1904. 



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