ORDER COCCYGES. 181 
Geocéccyx californianus (Lesson). Road-runner. [885.] 
Saurothera californiana Lesson, Compl. Giuvres Buffon, VI, 1829, 420. 
(California.) 
RanGcEe.— Mainly Lower Sonoran and lower part of Upper Sonoran 
zones in California (north to upper Sacramento Valley), Colorado, 
Kansas, and western and middle Texas south through Lower Cali- 
fornia and the tableland of Mexico to Puebla. 
Supramity COCCYZINAS. American Cuckoos. 
GENUS COCCYZUS VIEILLOT. 
Coccyzus ViEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 28. Type, by monotypy, ‘‘Coucou de 
la Caroline, Buff.’? = Cuculus americanus LINN&US. 
Coccyzus minor (GMELIN). 
Rance.— Florida Keys south through the West Indies and Mexico 
to Central America and northern South America. 
a. Coccyzus minor minor (GMELIN). Mangrove Cuckoo. [386.] 
Cuculus minor GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 411. (Cayenne.) 
Rancr.— Key West, Florida, West Indies (except Bahamas), and coast of 
Mexico and Central America to northeastern South America. 
[b. Coccyzus minor mafnardi Ringway. Maynard’s Cuckoo. [386a.] 
Coccyzus maynardt Ripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 274. (Ten 
Thousand Islands, Florida.) 
Rance.— Florida Keys and the Bahamas.] 
Coccyzus americénus (LINN US). 
RancEe.— Temperate North America, south in winter to South 
America. 
a. Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linnmus). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 
[387.] 
Cuculus americanus Linnasus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1,1758,111. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— Parts of North and South America. Breeds mainly in Austral 
zones but reaching into Transition, from North Dakota, Minnesota, southern 
