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L[eptostoma] longicauda Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 325. — Gambel, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1843, 263 (California). 



Phasianus mezicanus (not of Gmelin?) Walden, Ibis, 1869, 338 (crit.). 



Geococcyx mexicanus (not Phasianus mexicanus Gmelin) Strickland, Ann. and 

 Mag. N. H., viii, 1842, 544 (crit.).— Cassin, Illustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 

 1855, 213, pi. 36; Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 320 (California).— Heer- 

 mann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 59 (California; habits).— 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 205 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1864, 177 

 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 324 (n. Mexico).— Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 419 (Nuevo Leon; Sierra Madre, Xicotencal, Soto 

 la Maria, and near Tampico, Tamaulipas; San Salvador and Huezotzingo, 

 Puebla; Zapotlan, Jalisco). 



G[eococajx] mexicanus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, 453.— Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., ser. 2, i, 1849, 215 (crit. ; habits; food). 



[Geococcyx] mexicanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 97. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 

 1870, 209, no. 8900.— Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 174. 



GEOCOCCYX AFFINIS Hartlaub. 



LESSER ROADRUNNER. 



Smaller than 0. calif ornianus , with under parts buff, median por- 

 tion (broadly) of foreneck and chest imstreaked, and under tail- 

 coverts dusky. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum black, slightly glossed with bronze- 

 green, spotted with pale brownish buffy, the spots more numerous 

 and more transverse on forehead and anterior part of crown; hind- 

 neck brownish black, the feathers broadly edged with pale brownish 

 buffy; back and scapulars brown (mummy or prouts brown to nearly 

 seal brown), the feathers darker basally and sharply edged with pale 

 buff or buffy white, produciQg conspicuous streaks; wing-coverts 

 with a broad median streak of black passmg into brown terminally 

 and very broadly edged with white or buffy white, the greater coverts 

 black very broadly tipped with white; proximal secondaries (ter- 

 tials) brown narrowly bordered with black, broadly and sharply 

 edged with white or white and brownish buffy; other secondaries 

 dull blackish glossed with bronze-greenish, edged (except toward base 

 and, on the distal ones, sub terminally) with white or buffy white, the 

 outer web with a terminal spot of the same ; alulae dull black medially, 

 broadly margined with white; primary coverts dull black basally, 

 terminal half (approximately) white; primaries dull black, obliquely 

 crossed near middle portion by a broad band of white composed of 

 edgings to outer web only (these longer and narrower on inner quills), 

 the outer webs broadly tipped with white; rump brown, the feathers 

 indistinctly tipped with paler, especially on lower part; upper tail- 

 coverts brown glossed with purplish bronze and sharply edged with 

 white; middle pair of rectrices brown glossed with purplish bronze 

 or bronze-purple (more rarely with greenish bronze) and edged with 

 white; next pair dusky olive glossed with greenish bronze and with a 

 small white terminal spot, the outer web narrowly edged with white; 

 remaining rectrices dull black, faintly glossed with greenish and 

 tipped with white, the white tip increasing in width to the outermost, 



