Order COCCYGES. 



Suborder CUCULI. 



Family CUCULID^. Cuckoos, Anis, etc. 



Subfamily Cuculinae 

 Genus CUCULUS Linn. 

 Cuculus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed, lo, I, 1758, p. 110 (Tjrpe C. canorus Linn.)' 



*Cuculus canorus telephonus (Heine). Kamchatkan Cuckoo. 



Cuculus telephonus Heine, Joum. fur Ornith., XI, 1863, p. 352 (Japan). 

 Cuculus canorus Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 245, part. 

 Cuculus canorus telephonus RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, 



p. 7; Hartert, V6gel palaarktischen Fauna, Heft VII, Bd. II, I, 1912, 



p. 948. 



Range: Old World (northern Asia, etc.); accidental on St. Paul 

 Island, Pribilof Group, Alaska. 

 I : China. 



Genus COCCYZUS Vieill. 



Coccyzus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 28 (Type Coucou de la Caroline Buffon^ 

 Cuculus americanus Linn.). 



♦Coccyzus americanus americanus {Linn.). Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 



[Cuculus] americanus LinN/Eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. in (South 

 Carolina). 



Coccyzus americanus Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 308; Audu- 

 bon, Om. Biog., I, 1831, p. 18, pi. 2; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 1900, p. 134 (Bonda, Colombia, Oct. 27-Nov. 21); Lonnberg, Ibis, 1903, 

 p. 454 (Bolivia); Chubb, Ibis, 1910, p. 271 (Paraguay). 



Coccyzus americanus americanus RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 

 1916, p. 12; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 319 

 (Colombia, March, April 10-13 and Oct. 2). 



Range: Eastern North America; winters in Mexico, West Indies, 

 Central America and northern South America; accidental in Greenland, 

 England, France and Belgium.* 



t45: North America (New York i, Connecticut 2, Wisconsin 2, 

 Illinois 14, Indiana i, Florida 5, Louisiana i, Mississippi i); Mexico 



' The numerous records for Coccyzus americanus in Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, 

 and other parts of southern South America, probably refer to C. a. julieni. 



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