276 COCCYZUS AMERICANUS, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 



Am. iv, 1842, 29.5. pi. 275.— Gould, B. Eur. pi. 242.— Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 4.')7.— 

 GossK, B. Jam. 271).- WooDri., Sitgr. Rep. 1853,92.— Leotaud, Ois. Trin. 350.— 

 Newt., Ibis, 18.59, 149.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1860, 2.52; 1864, 120; 1870, 165; Ibis, 

 1860, 43; Cat. 1862, 322.— Lawu., Ann. Lye. ix, 1868, 128 (Costa Rica).— Gkay, 

 Haud-list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8914.— Guxdl., Rep. F. N. i, 295 (Cuba).— CouES, 

 Key, 1872, 190, lig. 126. 



ridija amcrimiia, Less., Trait6 Oru. 1831, 142. 



JEriithrojjJtrijs amcrimnun, Bv., Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 40. 



Cii'rrux (imvricdinifi, Br., Cat. Metod. Ucc. Europ. 1842, 50. 



Cocq/.'itcs anurictuiKS, Key.s. & Blas., Wirbcltli. Europ. 1840, 149. 



Coccygus anunmniiH, Cau., J. f. O. 1856, 104 ; 1862, 167 ; Mus. Hein. iv. 1862, 75.— Bd., 

 B. N. A. 1858, 76.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 155.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 371.— Snow, 

 B. Kans. 1873, 2.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 180.— Thippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 XV, 1872, 233 (Iowa).— B. B. & R., N. A. B. ii, 1874, 477, pi. 48, f. 4 ("3" err.). 



Cocc)izu8 2)!Jirhopi('ruf, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii, 270; Ency. Met. iii, 1343. 



Ctieulus ciiieronus, Temm., Man. Oru. iv, 1835, 277. 



CocctjtiteH Jiavlrostris, Gloger, J. f. O. 1854, 223. 



Coccyzus bairdii, Scl., P. Z. S. 1864, 120.— Gkay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 211, No. 8923.— 

 " Pelzeln, Oru. Bras. 273." 



(?) Coccygus julieni, Lawk., Pr. Phil. Acad. 1863, 106, Ann. Lye. viii, 1864. 42, 99 (Som- 

 brero). 



Hob. — Eastern United States and part of the British Provinces. West to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Also observed in California. South through Mexico and various West 

 India Islands and Central America into South America as far as Buenos Ayres. Acci- 

 dental in Europe. See Gould's ifc Schlegel's works; also, Hakt., Man. 1872, 124 (live 

 British instances, with the references). 



Lieutenant irairen's Expedition.— 8980, 8987, Platte River; 8983, 8985, Loup Fork of 

 Platte ; 8986, Elkhorn River. 



Confusion has arisen in the employ of the name dominicus for different species. Nutt- 

 all applied it to our Black-billed Cuckoo ; Bonaparte used it for a species, of which he 

 says (correctly or not) " rostro nigerrimo ;" Sclater, for the West Indian Mangrove 

 Cuckoo ; Baird apparently relegated it to the insular variety of americanus, afterwards 

 named bairdii by Sclater. But, as Cabanis and Heine determined, there is no doubt 

 whatever that it is merely a synonym of americanus. 



I am satisfied of the necessity of reducing the C. bairdii, Scl., to americanus, and the 

 same may be found necessary with C. julieni. 



Cabanis aud Heine have made two species of the rusty-bellied, yellow-billed "Man- 

 grove" Cuckoos; it does not a^jpear, liowever, that there is more than one siiecies, the 

 synonymy of which may be arranged as in the accompanying foot-note.*- 



Having already compared the North American distribution of this 

 species with that of the Black-billed, it only remains to note its Pacific 



* Coccyzus SENicuLus, (La<7i.) Vieill. 



Cucidus minor, Gm., i, 411 (ex P. 1. 813.) (Nomcn ineptum.) 



Coccyzus minor, Gkay, Gen. of B. ii, 457; Hand -list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8917. 



Caculm seniculus, Latil, Ind. Orn. i, 219. — Stei'H., Gen. Zool. ix, 125. 



Coccyzus senicuhis, Vieill., Ency. Meth. 1346. — Bi'., Consp. i, 1850, 111. — SCL., Cat. 1862, 



323; P. Z. S. 18(;4, 121.— Tavlok, Ibis, 1864, 170. 

 Coccygus senicidus, Cais. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, 78. 

 Coccygus helvivcntris, Cak., Schomb. Guiana, iii, 714. 



Mab. — Continental Tropical America. Trinidad; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique. 



SEXICULUS var. nesiotes 



Erythrophrys seniculus, Bi'.. Comp. anil Geog. List, 1838, 40. 



riaya minor, Less., Traite Orn. 1831, 141. 



Coccygus minor, Cab., J. f O. 1856, 104.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 78.— B. B. & R., N. A. B. ii, 



1874, 482, pi. 48, f. 3 (" 4 " err.). 

 Coccyzus dominicua, (?)Bp., Consp. i, 1850, 112 (gives black bill).— Scl., Cat. 1862, 323 



(not of Linuiuus). 

 Coccygus nesiotes. Cab., Mus. Hein. iv, 1802, 78.— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 170.— Scl., P. Z. S. 



1864, 121.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8918. 



i?a6.— Greater Antilles aud Florida. 



