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coast to central Colorado and western Texas. Winter home not determined, 

 jjrobably in iSouth America; occurs in Costa Rica in migration. 



Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson). Black-billed Cuckoo. [388.] 



Cuciihis erythropthalmus Wilson, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 16 (pi. 28, fig. 2). 

 (near Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Transition Zone from southeastern Alberta, 

 southern Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Prince Edward Island south to 

 Kansas, Arkansas, North Carolina, and the mountains ot Georgia. Winters 

 in South America from Colombia to Peru. Accidental in Greenland, the 

 Azores, Italy, and Ireland. 



Subfamily NEOMORPHINAE. Ground Cuckoos, 



Genus GEOCOCCYX Wagler. 



Geococcyx Wagler, Isis von Oken, [XXIV] 1831, Heft v (May), col. 524. 

 Type, by monotypy, Geococcyx variegaia WAGi,KR = Saurot}tcra cali- 

 forniana Lesson. 



Geoc6ccyx califomianus (Lesson) , Road-ninner. [385.] 



Sawothcra californiana Lesson, Compl. Oeuvres Buffon, VI, 1829, 

 420. (La Californie =southern California.) 



Range. — Mainly Lower Austral and lower part of Upper Austral zones in 

 California (north to the head of the Sacramento Valley), southern Utah, 

 Colorado, Kansas, middle Texas, and the lower Gulf coast south through 

 Lower California and the tableland of Mexico to Puebia and Michoacan. 



Subfamily CROTOPHAGINAE. Anis. 



Genus CROTOPHAGA Linnaeus. 



Crotophaga Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 105. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Crotophaga ani Linnaeus. 



• Crotophaga ani Linnaeus. Smooth-billed Ani. [383.] 



Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, I, 1758, 105. Based on 

 The Great Black-Bird Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, II, 298. (in America, 

 Africa =Jamaica.) 



Range. — West Indies, Yucatan, Central and South America. Casual in 

 Louisiana and southern Florida; accidental near Philadelphia ^ and North 

 Carohna (Edenton, August 23, 1866) .^ 



^ Baird in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, 

 IX, 1858, 72. 

 2 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 289. 



