ORDER CUCULIFORMES. 159 



Range. — Breeds in the Himalayas. Winters in Australia. Accidental in 

 the Pribilof Islands, Alaska (8t. Paul Island, July 4, 1890). i 



Cuculus canorus bakeri Hartert. Baker's Cuckoo. [388.2.1 



CkcuIus canorus bnlrri Hartert, Vog. palaark. Fauna, II, 1912, 948. 

 (Shillong, Khasia Hills.) 



Range. — Breeds in the mountains of Burma, northwest Yunnan, western 

 Szechwan, Kansu, and eastern Tibet. Accidental in Alaska (St. Lawrence 

 Island, Bering Sea., summer of 1930).- 



Genus COCCYZUS Vieillot. 



Coccyzus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 28. Type, by monotypy, Coucou de 

 la Caroline Buffon =Ciic%ihis americamis Linnaeus. 



Coccyzus minor maynardi Ridgway. Maynard's Cuckoo. [386a.] 



Coccyzus maynardi Ridgway, Manual N. Amer. Birds, 1887, 274. (Baha- 

 mas and Florida Keys =Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.) ^ 



Range. — Bahama Islands, Cuba, Florida Keys, and southern coast of 

 Florida north to Anclote Keys. [Allied races occur on other islands of the 

 West Indies and in Central America.] 



Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. [387.] 



Cuculus americanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 111. Based on 

 The Cuckoo of Carolina, Cuculus carolinensis Catesby, Carolina, I, 9. 

 (in Carolina = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Austral zones from North Dakota, Minn- 

 esota, southern Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to Nuevo Leon, 

 Tamaulipas, Louisiana, and the Florida Kej's, and west to South Dakota, 

 Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and Oklahoma. Migrates through Mexico, the 

 West Indies, and Central America, and winters in Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, and Uruguay. (Said to breed in Jamaica, Porto Rico, Haiti, and 

 Cuba.) Accidental in Greenland, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium. Casual 

 in Bermuda. 



Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ridgway. California Cuckoo. [387a.] 



Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ridgway, Manual N. Amer. Birds, 1887, 

 273. (Western United States= Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition and Austral zones from British Columbia 

 to southern Lower California, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa, and from the Pacific 



1 W. Palmer, Auk, XI, 1894, 325. 



2 Friedmann and Riley, Auk, XLVIII, 1931, 269. 



« All Florida records prove to be referable to this form and C. m. minor is 

 excluded from the Check-List. 



