422 



I. S ad. sk. 



m, n, 0. cJ ad. sk. 

 p, q. Ad. sk. 



r, s. Ad. sk. 



t. Ad. sk. 



u. Ad. sk. 



V. 2 ad. sk. 



w, X. S ; y. 2 



ad. sk. 

 z, a', 6'. Ad. sk. 

 c'. Ad. sk. 

 <^', c'. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 /',i/'. 2 ad. sk. 



CUCTJLID^. 



Zentla, Huatusco, State of Vera 

 Cruz, Au». {Ferrari-Perez). 



Jalapa, March {F. B. G.). 



Peto, Yucatan, April (G. F. 

 Gaumer'). 



Temax, Yucatan, May ( G. F. 

 Gaumer'). 



Progi'Bso, Northern Yucatan, 

 Jan. {E. C. J. Devis). 



Izalam, N. Yucatan, Feb. ((?. 

 F. Gaumer). 



Sierra S. Domingo, Tehuante- 

 pec, April 19 ( W. B. Richard- 

 son). 



Tehuantepec, Feb. (W. B. 

 Richardson). 



Guatemala. 



Vera Paz (O. »S'.). 



Duenas, Sept. (0. S.). 



San Geronimo, Dec, April 

 (O. S.). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll, 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm CoU. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



38. MOEOCOCCYX. 



Morococcyx, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 322 (1862) 

 Range. From Mexico to Costa Eica. 



Type. 

 M. erythropygus. 



1. Morococcyx erythropygus. 



Coccyzus erythropygus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 209 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 212, no. 8938 (1870). 

 Piaya erythropygia. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 4.57 (1846) ; Des Murs, 



Icon. Orn. pi. 66 (1848) ; Scl. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 133 ; G. E. 



Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 118. 

 Pyrrhococcyx erythropygius, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyyod. p. 6 (1854). 

 Morococcyx erythi-opygius, Scl. Cat. Ainer. B. p. 322 (1862) ; Cab. Sf 



Heine, Miis. Hein. iv. p. 81, note (1862) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 108 (1873); Nutting, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 386 (1884). 

 Geococcyx erythropygia, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 42 (1864). 



Adult. Forehead and crown mottled, the feathers being dark 

 brownish purple with pale edges; mantle rather pale brown 

 glossed with lilac ; back brownish black, with rufous edges to the 

 feathers ; remainder of the wing greener than the mantle and very 

 strongly glossed with olive ; upper tail-coverts and tail bronzy lilac, 

 mostly composed of narrow obscure bars of green and lilac ; the 

 tail-feathers, with the exception of the centre ones, with narrow 

 white ends ; a bare patch round the eye, surrounded by a band of 

 black feathers, extending backwards to behind the ear-coverts, 

 which itself is surmounted by a whitish eyebrow ; beneath rufous 

 buff, with pale glossy shafts to the feathers of the chin and upper 

 throat ; sides of the body strongly shaded with rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts dusky, edged with chestnut; under wing-coverts rufous 



