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Georgia and Alabama. Casual farther north; Di.strict of Columbia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and New York. 



Conuropsis carolinensis ludovicianus (Gmelin) . Louisiana Paroquet. [382a.] 



Psittaciis ludovicianus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 347. Based on 

 Papagai a tete aurore DuPratz, [ = Perroquet de la Louisiane DtjPratz, 

 Hist, de la Louisiane, II, 128]. (in Louisiana.) 



Range. — Extinct. Formerly ranged from Louisiana and Mississippi north 

 to Tennessee, Kentucky, western New York, Ohio (shore of Lake Erie), 

 Indiana, and Wisconsin, and west to Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, 

 Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Revue et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, VI, [No. 3] 

 March, 1854, 149. Type, by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus 

 Swainson. 



Rhynchopsitta pachyrh'ncha (Swainson). Thick-billed Parrot. [382.1.] 



Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., I, No. 6, June, 

 1827, 439. (Tableland of Mexico.) 



Range. — Mountains bordering the Mexican tableland, northward sporad- 

 ically to the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, and casually to the Dragoon, 

 Galiuro, and Graham ranges. 



Order CUCULIFORMES. Cuckoo-like Birds. 



Suborder CUCULI. Cuckoos, Roadrunners, 

 AND Anis. 



Family CUCULIDAE. Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis. 

 Subfamily CUCULINAE. Typical Cuckoos. 



Genus CUCULUS Linnaeus. 



Cuculus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 110. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Cuculus canorus Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Cuculus optatus Gould. Himalaya Cuckoo. [388.1.] 



Cuculus optatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1845, XIII, No. 145 [April], 

 18. (Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.) 



