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and Kosario) ; and California (San Diego, Mentone, Santa Barbara, 

 Sebastopol, and Navarro Kiver). 



Casual records. — The roadrunner is not known outside of its nor- 

 mal range, but a remarkable occurrence was the finding of a specimen 

 at Marshall Pass, Colo., at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, on 

 October 12, 1907. 



Egg dates. — Arizona : 20 records, April 5 to June 24 ; 10 records, 

 April 20 to June 3, indicating the height of the season. 



California : 73 records, March 4 to July 16 ; 37 records, March 25 

 to May 2. 



Mexico : 5 records, April 16 to May 16. 



Texas : 57 records, March 18 to July 5 ; 29 records, May 3 to June 1. 



COCCYZUS MINOR MAYNARDI Ridgrway 

 MAYNARD'S CUCKOO 



HABITS 



The mangrove cuckoo {Coccyzus minor minor) long remained on 

 the A. O. U. Check-list, including the third edition, based on Audu- 

 bon's record of a specimen taken on Key West and figured in his 

 Birds of America. Ridgway (1916) examined this specimen and 

 identified it as the Jamaican mangrove cuckoo {C. minor nesiotes). 

 Now the 1931 Check-list makes the statement that all Florida records 

 prove to be referable to C. minor maynardi, and excludes both of the 

 above races from the list. 



The mangrove cuckoo, of which Maynard's is a subspecies, is well 

 named, for all races of the species seem to be confined almost exclu- 

 sively to the mangroves. The only one I ever saw was encountered 

 on our way to Alligator Lake through the mangi'ove forests near 

 Cape Sable, Fla. Arthur H. Howell (1932) collected the only two 

 he ever saw "in a black mangrove swamp near the mouth of Aliens 

 River, below Everglade." 



Nesting. — Audubon (1842) says: "The nest is slightly constructed 

 of dry twigs, and is almost flat, nearly resembling that of the Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo." Mr. Howell (1932) says that "a set of two fresh 

 eggs (now in the Florida State Museum), which the female was 

 beginning to incubate, was taken at Chokoloskee, June 4, 1903, from a 

 nest 7 feet up in a red mangrove." 



Oscar E. Baynard tells me that he took two sets of two eggs each, 

 on May 25 and 26, 1912, in a dense stand of extra large mangroves 

 in Pinellas County, Fla. 



Eggs. — The eggs of Maynard's cuckoo are practically indistinguish- 

 able from those of the yellow-billed cuckoo. The measurements of 

 20 eggs average 30.77 by 23.18 millimeters; the eggs showing the 



