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Ara tricolor Bech STEIN : Cuban Macaw 



Ara tricolor Bechstein, in Latham, Allg. Ucbcrs. Vog., vol. 4, Th. i, 181 1, 

 p. 64, pi. I. (Cuba.) 



Modern form recorded from late Pleistocene : Baiios de Ciego 

 Montero, Santa Clara Province, Cuba. 



Ara autocthones Wetmore 



Ara autoctJwncs Wetmore, Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 21, No. i, 

 January 1937, p. 12, pi. i, figs. 8, 9. 



Recent (extinct) : ^^ Prehistoric kitchen midden deposits at Con- 

 cordia, near Southwest Cape, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonaparte 



Rhynchopsitfa Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 6, March 1854, 

 p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchns Swainson. 



Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha (Swainson) : Thick-billed Parrot 



Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n.s., vol. i, No. 6, June 

 1827, p. 439. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon. 



Genus CONUROPSIS Salvadori 



Connropsis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 20, 1891, pp. 146, 203. Tyi)e, 

 by original designation, Psittacus carolinensis Linnaeus, 



Conuropsis fratercula Wetmore 



Connropsis jratercnla Wetmore, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 211, Mar. 11, 1926, 

 P- 3, figs. 5-6. 



Middle Miocene (Merychippus primus zone, lower Sheep Creek 

 beds) : Snake Creek Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Order CUCULIFORMES : Plantain-eaters and Cuckoos 



Suborder CUCULI : Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis 



Family CUCULIDAE : Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis 



Subfamily NEOMORPHINAE: Ground Cuckoos 



Genus GEOCOCCYX Wagler 



Geococcyx Wagler, Isis von Oken, vol. 24, Heft 5, May 1831, col. 524. Type, 

 by monotypy, Geococcyx varicyala Wagler = Saurothcra calif orniana 

 Lesson. 



'^ Included here since it has not been found in living form, being known only 

 from bones. 



