PSITTACI: PARROTS. 



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Maynard's Mangrove Cuckoo. Rather smaller than the last ; wiug 5.25 ; tail 6.50. Below 

 pale buff, bleaching anteriorly. The Bahaman form, which has also occurred on the Florida 

 Keys. Coccyzus mmjnardi Kidgw. Man. 1887, p. 274; C minor maynardi A. 0. U. Suppl. 

 List, 1889, p. 10; List, 2d ed. 1895, No. [38(3 a.]. Coccygus seniculus maynardi Coues, Key, 

 4th ed. 1890, p. 903; included under seniculus proper in earlier eds. 



•CU'CULUS. (Lat. cucidus, tlie European Cuckoo, C. canorns.) Old World Tree 

 Cuckoos. Head not crested. Bill uiixlerate, not longer than head or tarsus. Nostrils 

 rounded, pierced in a swollen membrane. Wings well pointed, longer than tail, reaching wlien 

 folded beyond tiie upper coverts; the primaries barred crosswise. Tail graduated. Contains 

 numerous species of nearly all jjarts of the Old Wtirld, one of them accidentally occurring 

 vvitliin our limits. 



C. cano'rus telepho'nus. (Lai. canorus, tuneful; canor, song, melody; cano, I sing: not 

 well applied to a songless Picariau bird with non-oscine syrinx ! Gr. TrjXf, tele, afar, far off, 

 (f)d)Vf, 2)hone, voice, sound.) Kamschatkan or Siberian Cuckoo. Telephone Cuckoo. 

 General color above gray, below white, the wings and tail much barred, notclied, or spotted 

 with white, the under parts barred with black. Length about 14.00; wing 9.00 or more; tail 

 7.00 or more. A subspecies of the common Cuckoo, inhabiting Siberia, of accidental occur- 

 rence on the Pribiloff Islands (St. Paul, July 4, 1890 : W. Palmer, Auk, Oct. 1894, p. 325). 

 Cucidus telephonus Heine, J. f. 0. 1863, p. 352. C canorus teleiihonus Stej. Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 29, 1885, p. 224; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. [388. 1.]. 



Order PSITTACI: Parrots. 



Feet zygodactylous by reversion of 4th toe, covered with rugose granular scales or plates; 

 hill strongly epignathous, furnished with a (frequently feathered) cere, as iu Birds of Prey, 

 short and extremely stout (ex- 

 cept in Nestor) ; wings and tail 

 variable in form ; developed pri- 

 maries 10; secondaries aquin- 

 tocubital ; rectrices 12 (14 only 

 in Oreopsittacus). Parrots, in- 

 cluding Macaws, Cockatoos, 

 Lories, Paroquets, etc., form one 

 of the most strongly marked 

 groups of birds, as easily recog- 

 nized by their peculiar external 

 aspect as defined by anatomical 

 structure. They were formerly 

 included in an "order" Scan- 

 sores, on account of the paired 

 toes, but this is a comparatively 

 trivial character, indicating no 

 special affinity with other yoke- 

 toed l)irds (see under Picari(c). 



It is ao'reed bv com'llon consent ^'"^ ■*--• — Carolina Parro(|uet, reJuced. (From Teiiiicy, afti'r Wilson. \ 



tfiat their peculiarities entitle them to rank with groups called orders in the present volume. 

 They might not ina])tly be styled Frugirorus Raptores : and in some respects exhibit a vague 

 analogy to Quadritmana (monkeys) among mammals. 



The tongue is tliick and Hesiiy, in some genera ])eculiarly brusliy ; it has a horny nail on 

 the under side at the end, like a human finger, and witli tliis and its papilla* or fringe on liio 



