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Order Coccygiformes. Cuckoo-like Birds 1 



Key to the Superfamilies of Coccygiformes 2 



SUPERFAMILY CuCULI. TlIE CuCKOOS 3 



Family Cuculid^. The Cuckoos 3 



Key to the American Genera of Cuculidse 4 



Genus 1. Cuculus Linnaeus 6 



1. Cuculus canorus telephonus (Heine) 7 



Genus 2. Coccyzus Vieillot 10 



Key to the Species and Subspecies of Coccyzus 11 



1. Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus) 12 



2. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ridg\vay 17 



3. Coccyzus americanus julieni (Lawrence) 19 



4. Coccyzus minor minor (Gmelin)? 21 



5. Coccyzus minor palloris Rid<^vay 23 



6. Coccyzus minor maynardi (Ridgway) 25 



7. Coccyzus minor nesiotos (Cabanis) 26 



8. Coccyzus minor rilejd Ridgway 29 



9. Coccyzus minor vincentis Clark 30 



10. Coccyzus minor dominicae Shelley 31 



11. Coccyzus minor grenadensis Bangs 33 



12. Coccyzus minor abbotti (Stone) 34 



13. Coccyzus ferrugineus Gould 34 



14. Coccyzus melacorj-phus Vieillot 35 



15. Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson) 38 



16. Coccyzus lansbergi Bonaparte 41 



Genus 3. Coccycua Lesson 42 



17. Coccycua rutila panamensis (Todd) 43 



Genus 4. Piaya Lesson : 45 



Key to the Species and Subspecies of Piaya 46 



18. Piaya cayana thermophila (Sclater) 47 



19. Piaya mexicana (Swainson) 51 



Genus 5. Hyetornis Sclater 53 



Key to the Species of Hyetornis 54 



20. Hyetornis pluvialis (Gmelin) 55 



21. Hyetornis rufigularis (Wiirttemberg) 56 



Genus 6. Sam-othera Vieillot 57 



Key to the Species and Subspecies of Saurothera 58 



22. Saurothera bahamensis bahamensis Bryant 58 



23. Saurothera bahamensis andria (G. S. Miller) 60 



24. Saurothera merlini merlini D'Orbigny 60 



25. Saurothera merlini decolor Bangs and Zappey 61 



26. Saurothera vieilloti Bonaparte 62 



27. Saurothera vetula (Linnaeus) 63 



28. Saurothera dominicensis Lafresnaye 64 



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