BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



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Adult female.—Length. (skins), 306-335 (318); wing, 140-146 

 (143.3); tail, 169.5-186 (176.6); exposed culmen, 29-31 (30.1); tarsus, 

 30-31.5 (30.7); outer anterior toe, 19.5-21.5 (20.3).« 



Islands of St. Vincent and Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles.^ 



Cocq/zus seniculus {not Cuculus seniculus Latham) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 121, part (monogr.). 



Cocq/zus minor (not Cuculus minor Gmelin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1870, 1G6, part (monogr.); 1871, 273 (Santa Lucia); 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia).— 

 Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 65 (Santa Lucia; habits). — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 482, part. — Lawrence, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 193 (St. Vincent); i, 1879, 487, part (St. Vin- 

 cent).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 365, part; Ibis, 1886, 473 (St. Vincent); Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 160, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 102, part (Santa 

 Lucia; St. Vincent). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1890, 130 (Santa 

 Lucia). — ^Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 523, part 

 (West Indies, part). 



[Cocqfzus] minor Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 163, part. 



Cocq/gus minor AiAjEvi , Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia). 



[Cocq/gus] minor Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19, part. 



Cocqizus minor minor Clark (A. H.), West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183 (Santa 

 Lucia). 



Cocq/zus minor dominicas (not C. dominicse Shelley) Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 

 1892, 102, part (Santa Lucia). 



Cocq/zus minor vinccntis ChXKK (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, no. 7, Oct., 

 1905, 264 (Peter's Hope, St. Vincent; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs; habits); 

 West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183 (Santa Lucia). 



C[occyzv^] minor vincentis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xx, 1907, 53, 54, in text. 



COCCYZUS MINOR DOMINICA Shelley. 



SHELLEY'S MANGROVE CUCKOO. 



Similar in size to C. m. vincentis but coloration of under parts much 

 deeper (decidedly the most deeply colored form of the species), and 

 bill decidedly stouter. 



o Six specimens. 



6 The Harris specimen (in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia) said to be from the Columbia River (but undoubtedly not from there) ia 

 apparently this form. 



