182 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, 

 Louisiana, and northern Florida, and west to South Dakota, Nebraska, and 

 Oklahoma; migrates through the West Indies and Central America; winters 

 in South America south to Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. 



6. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis RIDGWAY. California Cuckoo. [387a.] 



Coccyzus americanus occidentalis RIDGWAY, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887> 

 273. (Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds in Transition and Sonoran 

 zones from British Columbia to southern Lower California and Chihuahua, 

 and from the Pacific coast to eastern Colorado and western Texas; winter 

 home unknown, probably in South America ; Costa Rica in migration. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus (WILSON). Black-billed Cuckoo. [388.] 



Cuculus erythrophthalmus WILSON, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 16, pi. 28, fig. 2. 

 (Probably near Philadelphia, Pa.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds mainly in the Tran- 

 sition Zone from southeastern Alberta, southern Manitoba, southern 

 Quebec, and Prince Edward Island south to Kansas, Arkansas, North 

 Carolina, and mountains of Georgia; winters in South America 

 from Colombia to Peru. 



[SUBFAMILY CUCULINJE. TRUE CUCKOOS. 



GENUS CUCULUS LINNAEUS. 



Cuculus LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 110. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Cuculus canorus LINN^US (Gray, 1840). 



Cuculus canorus LINNAEUS. 



RANGE. Greater part of the Old World; accidental in Alaska. 



a. [Cuculus canorus canorus. Extralimital.] 



6. Cuculus canorus telephonus HEINE. Kamchatka Cuckoo. [388.1.] 

 Cuculus telephonus HEINE, Journ. fur Orn., 1863, 352. (Japan.) 



RANGE. An Asiatic subspecies, accidental on St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, 

 Alaska.] 



