1864.] | DR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE GENUS Coccyzus. 121 
The single specimen which I possess of this species has been kindly 
presented to me by Mr. Alfred Newton. It formerly formed one of 
a small collection of birds obtained in Jamaica by the Rev. J. M. 
Philipps, of Spanish-town, and sent by him to Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
Ihave little doubt that it is the species called by Prof. Baird (J: c.) 
Coceyzus dominicus, a name which I have already given my reasons 
for rejecting. It is not, however, Gosse’s Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
(Birds of Jamaica, p. 27 9), as suggested by Prof. Baird; for I have 
one of Mr. Gosse’s specimens in my collection, and that is the true 
Coccyzus americanus. Mr. Gosse also states that his May-bird is 
but a summer visitor to Jamaica ; whereas Mr. March tells us (re- 
ferring, as I suppose, to Coceyzus bairdi) that this bird “is a con- 
stant resident in the island, and more common in the lowlands during 
the summer than C. seniculus (i. e. Coceyzus nesiotes). It breeds 
from March to July, and builds in the low branches of trees or 
shrubs. The nest is a structure of a few dry sticks, so loosely put 
together that it falls to pieces on any attempt to remove it: three, 
rarely four, eggs are laid; they are glaucous green, oval, generally 
(though not always) round at both ends, and vary in size from 14 
by § to 12 by 1 inch.”—Proc. Acad. Phil. 1863, J. ¢. 
3. Coccyzus nrsiorEs. 
Coceyzus seniculus, Gosse, B. Jam. p- 281; Newton, Ibis, 1859, 
p- 150; Sallé, P. Z.S. 1857, p. 234; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 79 
(nec Lath.). 
Coceygus minor, Baird, B. N. Am. p- 78. 
Coceyzus dominicus, Sclater, Cat. Am. B. p- 323, 
Coccyzus nesiotes, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 78 ; Taylor, 
Ibis, 1864, p. 170. 
Hab. Jamaica (Gosse et Osburn) ; St. Croix (Newton) ; St. Do- 
mingo (Sadlé) ; Porto Rico (Taylor). 
Mus. Brit. et P. L. S. 
4. Coccyzus sEnicu.vs. 
Cuculus minor!, Gm. S. N. i. p- 411 (ex Buff. Pl. Enl. 813). 
Cuculus seniculus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p- 219. 
Coccyzus seniculus, Vieill. Enc. Méth. p- 1346; Sclater, Cat. Am. 
B. p. 323; Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 170. 
Coccyzus helviventris, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 714, 
Coccyzus seniculus, Cab. et Hein, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 78, 
Hab. Guiana (Schomb.); Cayenne; Trinidad ; Chiriqui (Capé. 
Kellett); Domiuica (Taylor) ; Guadeloupe et Martinique (Mus. 
Paris.). 
Mus. Brit. et P. L.S. 
Ihave compared my skin of this species with others in the British 
Museum from Chiriqui, Cayenne, and Trinidad, and believe them 
identical. The Chiriqui specimen is rather paler below. Mr. Tay- 
lor’s examples from Dominica are not different. 
