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ves, Tamaulipas, Sept., Oct.). — Honeywill, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 233 (Crooked 

 Lake, Minnesota). 



Coccygus americanus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Om., 1856, 104 (Cuba); 1862, 167 (Costa 

 Rica).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 76; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 69. — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Om., 1861, 415 (Cuba; crit.). — Schle- 

 GEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 37. — Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Om., 1869, 361 (Costa Rica). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 477, part, pi. 48, fig. "3"=4.— Rathbun (F. R.), Rev. List 

 Birds Centr. N. Y., 1879, 25 (breeding).— Sennett, BuIL U. S. Geol. and 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 415 (Lomita Ranch, s. Texas, breeding; habits). — 

 Dalgleish, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, v, 1880, 73 (5 British Island, 1 French, 1 

 Belgian records). — Widmann, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 56 (parasitic 

 habits). — CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 429, part. — Zeledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. C. R.,i, 1887, 123 (Cartage and San Juan de San Jose, Costa Rica). — 

 Beyer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 102 (Louisiana, breeding). 



Cloccygus] americanus ^Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 423. — Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft 1, 1862, 75 (Georgia; etc.). — Coues, Key N. 

 Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 476, part. 



[Coccygus] americanus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Om., 1861, 334 (Cuba). — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19 (Bahamas; Cuba). 



Piaya americana Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 142. 



C[occystes] americanus Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xxxiv, 

 147. — Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Mus. Senckenb., 1891, 147. 



[Coccyzon] americanus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 202 

 (Georgia). 



Erythrophrys americanus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 40. 



Cocajzus pyropterusYiEihhOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., viii, 1817, 270 (new name 

 for Cuculus americanus Linnaeus). 



(?) [Cuculus] dominicusljiyiNMvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 170 (Santo Domingo; 

 based on Cuculus dominicensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 110, pi. 9). — Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 416.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 221. 



(?) Coccygus dominiais Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 154. 



(?) Coccygus dominicus? Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 96 (Santo 

 Domingo). 



(?) P[iarja] dominica Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 457. 



[Cocci/zus] flavirostris Gloger, Journ. fiir Orn., ii. May, 1854, 223 (new name for 

 Cuculus americanus Gmelin). 



Cuculus carolinensis Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 13, pi. 28, fig. 1 (new name for 

 C. americanus Linnseus ? ) . 



Coccyzus bairdi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1864 (pub. Aug. 1), 120 (Jamaica; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater). 



Coccyzus minor (not Cuculus minor Gmelin) Bonhote, Auk, xviii, 1901, 148 (Cay 

 Lobos, Bahamas; see Bonhote, Auk, xx, 1903, 179). 



COCCYZUS AMERICANUS OCCIDENTALIS Ridgway. 



CALIFORNIA CTTCKOO. 



Similar to C. a. americanus but averaging decidedly larger. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 276-309 (287); wing, 143.5-154.5 

 (149.6); tail, 140-155 (147.1); exposed culmen, 27-30 (27.7); tarsus, 

 25-29 (26.7); outer anterior toe, 18.5-20 (19.1).« 



« Eleven specimens. 

 1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 2 



