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Micrococcyx pumilus Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Art. & Sci., Sci. Bull., IIi 

 1916, p. 312 (Maripa; Caura R., and Quiribana de Caicara, Venezuela). 



Range: Venezuela and Colombia; Trinidad? 

 3: "Venezuela." 



Micrococc3rx cinereus ( VieilL). Ash-colored Cuckoo. 



Coccyzus cinereus ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VIII, 1817, p. 272 (Para- 

 guay); Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 312; Sclater and 

 Hudson, Argentine Om., II, 1889, p. 38, pi. 13. 



Range: Paraguay, southern Brazil, Argentina, northern Chile (?). 



Genus COCCYCUA Lesson. 



Coccycua Lesson, Traite d'Om., 1831, p. 142 (Type Cuctdus monachus Cuvier = 

 C. rutilus Illiger). 



•Coccycua rutila nitila (Illiger). Little Cuckoo. 



Cuculus rutilus Illiger, Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1 812, p. 224 (Cayenne). 



Piaya minuta Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 378 (part); Goeldi, 



Alb. Aves Amazon, pt. 3, 1905-6, pi. 25, fig. 2. 

 Piaya rutila Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1908, p. 496, part (Colombia, 



Venezuela and Cayenne); Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Mun- 



chen, XXII, 1906, p. 600; Id., Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Munchen, 



XXVI, 2, 1912, p. 95 (Pard District). 

 Piaya rutila rutila Cherrie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, 1916, p. 393 



(key to races); Chapman, Bvill. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 332 



(Villavicencio, Colombia). 

 C[occycua] rutila rutila Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 43, 



footnote. 

 Piaya rutila orinocensis Cherrie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, 1916, 



P- 393 (Sacupana, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela).' 

 Coccycua rutila rutila Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, 



No. 2, 1918, p. 49 (Paramaribo and Rijsdijkweg, Surinam). 



Range : From eastern Colombia through Venezuela and Trinidad to 

 Cayenne and northern Brazil; Peru (Moyobamba)? 



7: British Gtiiana 2, and Brazil (Rio Branco) i; Venezuela (Orope) 

 3; "Colombia" i; Peru (Moyobamba) i?** 



Coccycua rutila gracilis (Heine). Western Little Cuckoo. 



Coccyzusa gracilis Heine, Joum. fur Omith., XI, 1863, p. 356 (Esmeraldas, 

 western Ecuador). 



/'[t'aya] rutila gracilis Cherrie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, 1916, 



p. 394, in key. 

 C. r. gracilis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 44, in text. 



'I can find no constant characters by which birds from Venezuela can be dis- 

 tinguished from those from Guiana. 



'» An immature specimen which I refer provisionally to this form. 



