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Eastern Panama (Laguna del Pita; Rio Indio) and southward over 

 whole of South America east of Andes to eastern Peru (Rio Ucayali; 

 Sarayacu; Santa Cruz; Samaria; Yquitos), Argentina (Santa Ana and 

 La Candelaria, Misiones; Pilcomayo; Barracas al Sud, Buenos 

 Aires) and Paraguay (Lambare; Sapucay; Villa Pilar). 



[Crotophaga] major Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 363 (Cayenne; based on 

 Le Grand Bout-de-Petun Brisson, Orn., iv, 180; Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 102, 

 fig. 1).— Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 148.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, 

 no. 8912. — ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107. — Sharps, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 175. 



Crotophaga major Teuhinck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 39. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat.,i, 1816, 551; Enc. Meth., iii, 1823, 1356.— Lesson, Man. d'Om., ii, 1828, 

 133; Traite d'Om., 1831, 129.— Descourtilz, Om. Bres., 1854-56, pi. 15, 

 upper fig. — BuRMEisTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 253. — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1857, 268 (Rio Javarri, Brazil); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 320 (Trinidad; Para, Brazil).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 72, 

 footnote. — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 93 (Trinidad). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 47.— Leotaud, Ois. Tiinidad, 1866, 358.— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 195 (Rio Ucayali, e. Peru); 1867, 

 585 (Rio Capim, Brazil); 1873, 296 (lower Rio Uca>-ali and Santa Cruz, e. 

 Peru); 1879, 536 (Neche, Colombia).— Pelzeln, Om. Bras., Abth. iii, 1870, 

 268, 449.— FiNSCH, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 587 (Trinidad; crit.).— 

 Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 378 (Lago Paturia, Colombia). — Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 viii, 1876, 80 (Rhomes, lower Amazon); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 141 

 (Chapada, Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil). — Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 

 443 (S. Am.; Trinidad).— Taczanowski, Om. du Perou, iii, 1886, 180.— 

 Berlepsch, Joum. fiir Om., 1887, 23 (Lambare, Paraguay; crit.), 121 (Para- 

 guay); 1889, 309 (Sarayacu and Ucayali, e. Peru); Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 283 

 (Cayenne). — RiKERand Chapman, Auk, viii, 1891, 159 (Santarem, Brazil). — 

 Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 428 (Nichi and Medellin, Antio- 

 quia, Colombia; Sarayacu, e. Ecuador; Aunai, Brit. Guiana; Trinidad; 

 Rio Capim, Bahia, and Mattogrosso, Brazil; upper Ucayali, Samiria, Santa 

 Cruz, and Yquitos, e. Peru).— Chapman, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1894, 64 

 (Trinidad). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 543 (Rio 

 Atrato, Colombia; Colombia to Peru, Guiana, Brazil, and Argentina). — Sal- 

 VADORi and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xiv, 1899, no. 339, 8 

 (Laguna del Pita, Panama); xv, 1900, 22 (Valle del Zamora, e. Ecuador). — 

 Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1900, 80 (descr. eggs), 263 (measurements 

 of eggs). — Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 98 (Altagracia, 

 Caicara, and Suapure, Venezuela). — Beebe, Zoologica, i, 1909, 88 (Rio 

 Guarapiche and Cano Guanaco, n. e. Venezuela; habits; notes). — Hartert 

 and Venturi, Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 231 (La Candelaria, Misiones, Argen- 

 tina; descr. eggs). — Reiser, Denkw. Mat. -Nat. Kaiserl. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 

 1910, 59 (Rio San Francisco, etc., n. e. Brazil). — Chubb, Ibis, 1910, 273 

 (Sapucay, Paraguay). — Dabbene, Om. Argent., 1910, 273 (Misiones; Pilco- 

 mayo; Santa Ana, Misiones; Barracas al Sud, Buenos Aires). — Grant 

 (C. H. B.), Ibis, 1911, 323 (near Villa Pilar, Paraguay). 



C[rotophaja] major Tschudi, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., x, pt. i, 1844, 299 

 (Peru). — Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, 458. — Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. 

 Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 712. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 487. 



Crotophaga mayor Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1844-16, 40, 256. 



