ORDER COCCYGES. 181 



Geococcyx californianus (LESSON). Road-nmner. [385.] 



Saurothera californiana LESSON, Compl. (Euvres Buffon, VI, 1829, 420. 

 (California.) 



RANGE. 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. 



SUBFAMILY COCCYZIN2E. AMERICAN CUCKOOS. 

 GENUS COCCYZUS VIEILLOT. 



Coccyzus VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 28. Type, by monotypy, "Coucou de 

 la Caroline, Buff." = Cuculus americanus LINN.EUS. 



Coccyzus minor (GMELIN). 



RANGE. 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.) 



RANGE. Key West, Florida, West Indies (except Bahamas), and coast of 

 Mexico and Central America to northeastern South America. 



[6. Coccyzus minor ma^nardi RIDGWAY. Maynard's Cuckoo. [386a.] 



Coccyzus maynardi RIDGWAY, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 274. (Tea 

 Thousand Islands, Florida.) 



RANGE. Florida Keys and the Bahamas.} 



Coccyzus americnus (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Temperate North America, south in winter to South 

 America. 



a. Coccyzus americanus americanus (LINNAEUS). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



[387.] 



Cuculus americanus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 111. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Parts of North and South America. Breeds mainly in Austral 

 zones but reaching into Transition, from North Dakota, Minnesota, southern 



