igiQ- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 349 



Range: Southern Mexico from states of Sinaloa, Yucatan and 

 Vera Cruz to Nicaragua. 



8: Mexico (Oaxaca, Jalisco) 2; Yucatan 4; Guatemala 2. 



Genus MOROCOCCYX Sclater. 



Morococcyx Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 322 (Type Coccyzus erythropyga 

 Lesson). 



♦Morococcyx erythropyga erjrthropyga (Lesson). Rufous-rumped 

 Cuckoo. 



Coccyzus erythropyga Lesson, Rev. Zool., V, 1842, p. 210 ("San Carlos, Cen- 

 tre Amerique"). 



Morococcyx erythropygus Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 422 

 (part). 



Morococcyx erythropygus erythropygus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 

 VII, 1916, p. 71 (cut, pi. VIII). 



Range: Costa Rica to Guatemala. 



11: Guatemala 3; Nicaragua 7, and Costa Rica i. 



Morococcyx erythropyga mexicanus Ridgivay. Mexican Rufous- 

 rumped Cuckoo. 



Morococcyx erythropygus mexicanus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 

 1915, p. 105 (Juchitan, Oaxaca, southwestern Mexico); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 73 (syn., diag., range, etc.). 



Range: Southwestern and western Mexico. 



Genus TAPERA Thunburg. 



Tapera Thunburg, Gdtheborg k. Vet. och Vitterhets, Samhallets Nya Hand!., 

 Ill, 1819, p. !• (Type Tapera brasiliensis Thunburg = Cuculus naevius Linn.). 

 Diplopterus Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 977 (Type Cuculus ncevius Linn.). 



*Tapera naevia naevia {LinncBus). Striped Cuckoo. 



Cuculus naevius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, p. 170 (Cayenne). 



Diplopterus ncevius Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 423, part; 

 Taczanowski, Om. Perou, III, 1886, p. 184 (Peru). 



Tapera ncevia Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 283 (Cayenne); Snethlage, 

 Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 214 (Pard; Mexiana, etc., northeastern 

 Brazil); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 323 (many 

 localities in Colombia). 



Tapera ncevia ncevia Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 67, 

 part (synonomy in footnote); Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 LXII, No. 2, 191 8, p. 50 (Paramaribo and Javaweg, Surinam). 



Range: South America, from Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, 



• See Lonnberg, Ibis, 1903 p. 239. 



