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Young. — Similar to adults, but general color of upper parts de- 

 cidedly more brownish, especially anteriorly; outer webs of primaries 

 more distinctly rufescent proximally ; under parts rather more strongly 

 suffused vnth. pale brownish buffy; rectrices with whitish tips less 

 distinct, and subterminal dusky bar indistinct or obsolete; naked 

 skin of orbital region yellow, instead of red. 



Nestling. — Similar to the fuU-grown young, but feathers of back 

 and rump, scapulars, interscapulars, and upper tail-coverts tipped 

 with grayish white. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 269-295 (281); wing, 132.5-144 

 (143.9); tail, 142-155 (149.8); exposed culmen, 22.5-26 (23.8); tar- 

 sus, 21-25 (23.5); outer anterior toe, 16-19 (17.5).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 270-300 (286); wing, 137-146.5 

 (141.4); tail, 146.5-164.5 (154.7); exposed culmen, 21.5-25 (23.4); 

 tarsus, 21.5-25.5 (23.8); outer anterior toe, 16.5-19 (17.8).^ 



Temperate eastern North America, breeding north to Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, Quebec, Ontario (Point Pelee; Parry Sound; Muskoka), 

 southern Manitoba, southeastern Saskatchewan, and southeastern 

 Alberta, west to eastern Montana (Fort Keogh; Custer County), etc., 

 straggUng (?) to eastern Colorado (Fort Collins; Loveland; Wray; 

 Jackson Canyon), etc., south to South CaroUna (Blount Pleasant), 

 Georgia (St. Simons Island), northern Florida (Leon County), Ken- 

 tucky, Arkansas, and Kansas; in winter southward through Mexico 

 (reaching Pacific coast in Guerrero), and Central America, to northern 

 South America, as far as Peru (llio Ucayali; Guajango; Lechugal) 

 and Trinidad, and to Bermudas, Cuba, and Porto Kico; accidental 

 in Ireland, Azores, and Italy. 



Cuculus erythropthalma Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 16, pi. 28, fig. 2 (type 

 locality probably Pennsylvania; mentions also Georgia). 



Cuculus erythrophthalmus Bonaparte, Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826 [240]. — 

 Harting, Ilandb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 124 (accidental in Ireland). 



Cu[culus] erythrophthalmus Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, pt. i, 1826, 208. 



Cocajzus erythrophthalmus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 

 1824, 367; Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [28]; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 

 42, 437 (crit.).— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 170, pi. 32; v, 1839, 523; 



o Fifteen specimens. 



b Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 



interior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Atlantic States 



Five adult males from Mississippi Valley . . 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from Atlantic States.... 

 Five adult females from Mississippi Valley 



17.7 

 17.2 



17.6 

 18.1 



