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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 268-315 (284); wing, 144-156.5 

 (150.1); tail, 133.5-156 (147.2); exposed culmen, 26-29 (28.4); tar- 

 sus, 25-28.5 (26.9); outer anterior toe, 18-22 (19.2).« 



Western United States and British Columbia (Fraser River at 

 Mount Lehman; Burrard Inlet; Kamloops; Mount Tolmie; Chilli- 

 wack); breeding southward to Cape San Lucas, Sinaloa (Mazatlan), 

 Chiliuahua, etc.; eastward to Idaho (Fort Sherman, 1 specimen), 

 Colorado, and western Texas (Tom Green, Concho, and Kerr counties) ; 

 in winter southward as far as Costa Kica (San Jose). 



Coccyzus americanus (not Cuculus americanus Linnseus) Woodhouse, in Rep. 

 Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 92, part (New Mexico). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Calif., 1870, 371 (Napa Valley; Sacramento).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 293 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, breeding). — Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 291, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 275, part. — Henshaw, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 8 (Provo, Utah); Rep. Orn. Spec. T^lieeler's Surv., 1874, 47 

 (Prove, Utah), 164 (s. e. Arizona, summer resident); Zool. Expl. W. of 100th 

 Merid., 1875, 386 (Provo, Utah; Cienega, Arizona). — Ridgway, Orn. For- 

 tieth Parallel, 1877, 558 (Sacramento, California, June; Truckee Valley, 

 Nevada, July); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, part; Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 387, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1, 1879, 432 

 (Marysville, California, June; Murphy's, Calaveras Co., Sept.). — Drew, Auk, 

 ii, 1885, 17 (Colorado, breeding at 4,000-8,000 ft.).— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 425 

 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, up to 4,000 ft.). — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 190 

 (Tom Green and Concho counties, w. Texas, breeding). 



{?)Coccygus americanus ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1864, 120, part (monogr.), 

 177 (near City of Mexico); 1870, 165, part (monogr.). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 136 (Fraser R., at Mt. Lehman, Brit. Columbia). 



[Cocq/zus] americanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 140, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. 



Coccygus americanus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 477, part. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 429, part. — Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 26 (Tucson, Arizona, June). 



C[occygus\ americanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 476, part. 



o Twelve specimens. 



