348 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Neomorphus pucherani Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 417. 

 Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 214. 



Range: Peru. 

 ♦Neomorphus rufipennis (Gray). Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo. 



Cultrides rufipennis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849, p. 63, pi. 10 (Guiana). 

 Neomorphus rufipennis Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 418; 

 Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 443, pi. IX. 



Range: British Guiana. 

 2: British Guiana. 



Neomorphus nigrogularis' Chapnan. Chapman's Ground Cuckoo. 

 Neomorphus nigrogrularis Chapm^*;, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 1914, 

 p. 194 (Mt. Duida, southwestern Venezuela, alt. 700 ft.). 



Range: Region of Mt. Duida, Venezuela. 



Neomorphus radiolosus Sclater and Salvin. Banded Ground Cuckoo. 



Neomorphus radiolosus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, p. 439 

 (Intaj,Ecuador);SHELLEY, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 418; Hart- 

 ERT, Nov. Zool., X, 1898, p. 499 (Paramba). 



Range : Ecuador. 



Genus GEOCOCCYX Wagler. 



Geococcyx Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 524 (Type G. variegata Wagler — Saurothera cal- 



iforniana Lesson). 



*Geococcyx californianus Lesson. Road Runner. 



Saurothera calif orniana Lesson, Compl. Buffon, VI, 1829, p. 420 (California). 

 Geococcyx mexicanus (not Phasianus mexicanus Gmel.) Cassin, 111. Bds. Calif. 

 Texas, etc., 1855, p. 213, pi. 36; Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 

 p. 419. 

 Geococcyx californianus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 191 6, p. 



75 (cut, pi. II, fig. 2). 

 Range: Southwestern United States from middle California, Utah 

 a'ld Colorado, south to states of Puebla and Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



9: Texas 3, Arizona 3, New Mexico i; Mexico (Sonora, N. Leon) 2. 



*Geococcyx affinis Hartlaub. Lesser Road Runner, 



Geococcyx affinis Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., VII, 1844, p. 215 (Guatemala) ; Shelley, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 421; Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 VII, 1916, p. 80, 



' Neomorphus nigrogularis Chapman: Nearest to N. rufipennis (Gray) but smal- 

 ler, the throat blackish, the lower breast, belly and flanks much darker; tail and wings 

 greener. 



