BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



Piaya rnexicana Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 388 (Juquila, Oaxaca; 



crit.); I860, 285 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 322 (Oaxaca).— Schleg el, 



Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 57. — Ferr.\ri-Perez, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 162 (Chietla, Puebla).— JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



xvi, 1893, 786 (Juanacatlan and Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco). — Allen, Bull. 



Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 137, in text (crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves,ii, 1896,531 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic; Hacienda 



de San Marcos, Zapotlan, Guadalajara, and Bolanos, Jalisco; Guanajuato; 



Rio Tupila and Plains of Colima, Colima; Temascal tepee, Mexico; Acapulco 



and Xautipa, Guerrero; Juchatengo, Juquila, and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). 

 [Piaya] mexicana Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 

 P[iaya] dayana] mexicana Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, July 19, 1893, 138, 



in text (crit.). 

 Piaya cayana mexicana Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, July 19, 1893, 139 



(Colima).— Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 349 (Caletic, 



Escuinapa, etc., s. Sinaloa). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1908, 498 



(crit.). 

 Pyrrhococcyx mexicanus Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 170 (crit.). — Finsch, 



Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, 1870, 356 (Mazatlan). 

 P[yrrhococcyx] mexicanus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 82 



(w. Mexico; diagnosis). 

 [Pyrrhococcyx] mexicanus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



202 (w. Mexico). 

 [Coccyzus] mexicanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 211, no. 8930. 

 Piaya cayennensis (not Coccyzus cayanensis Swainson) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., i, 1849, 215 (Mazatlan, etc.). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1883, 426 (Acapulco, Guerrero). 

 [Piaya] cayanus (not Cuculus cayanus Linnteus) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 



110, part (Mexico). 

 Piaya cayana Shelley, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 273, part (Mazatlan, 



Sinaloa; Putla, Oaxaca; Bolanos, Hacienda San Marcos, and Zapotlan, Jalisco; 



Colima; Acapulco, and Xautipa, Guerrero). 

 [Piaya] cayana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. 



Genus HYETORNIS Sclater. 



Ptiloleptis (not Ptiloleptus Swainson, 1837) Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 121 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 6). (Type, Cumulus pluvialis 



Gmelin.) 

 Eyetornis Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, April, 1862, 321. (Type, Cv/mIus pluvialis 



Gmelin.) 

 Eyetomantis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Om., May, 1862, 203, footnote. (Type, Cuculus 



pluvialis Gmelin.) 



Large, long-tailed, arboreal Cuculinse (length about 410-530 mm.), 

 closely resembling the genus Piaya but differing in relatively shorter 

 and less graduated tail (little more than one and a half times as long as 

 wing, graduated for little if any more than one-half its length) , larger 

 bill and feet, and very different coloration (ohvaceous or slaty above, 

 the tail black with broad white tips to rectrices, and under parts, at 

 least of body, chestnut) . 



