1870.) MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE GENUS COCCYZUS. 167 
Supra fuscus, fronte cinerascente : regione auriculari nigricante : 
subtus pallide fulvus : rectricibus lateralibus nigris, albo late 
terminatis, mediis duabus dorso concoloribus = rostro superiore 
nigro, inferiore ad basin aurantiaco: long. tota 12, ale ores 
caude rectr. med. 6*2, lat. 3°7. 
Hab. Florida (Audubon) ; Cuba (Gundlach) ; Jamaica (Gosse) ; 
8. Domingo (Sallé); Porto Rico (Bryant) ; Sta. Cruz (Newton) ; 
Dominica (Taylor); S. Lucia (Mus. P. T. S.); Guadeloupe et 
Martinique (Mus. Paris) ; Honduras (Whitely) ; Chiriqui (Kellett, 
Mus. Brit.); Trinidad (Léotaud) ; Cayenne (Mus. Brit.); Brit. 
Guiana (Schomb.) ; Cajutata near Pard (Natt.). 
I have seven skins of this Cuckoo in my collection from Jamaica, 
S. Domingo, Porto Rico, Honduras, and S. Lucia. I have also 
examined those in the British Museum, from Chiriqui, Trinidad, and 
Cayenne, and am now of opinion that they are all referable to one 
species. For this we must employ the specific name minor, imposed 
by Gmelin upon Buffon’s Pl. Enl. 813, which unmistakably repre- 
sents the species. 
When I wrote my American catalogue I was inclined to believe 
there might be two allied species of this form—an insular one, which 
I then termed dominicus, and a continental one, distinguishable 
principally by its thicker bill, which I considered to be the true 
minor (sive seniculus). In my paper on the genus, written in 1864, 
I retained this view, merely adopting for the species previously 
termed dominicus the name nesiotes, under which Cabanis and 
Heine had then described it. 
Having now had an opportunity of examining more specimens, I 
have come to the conclusion that there are no sufficient grounds for 
maintaining these two supposed species as distinct. The differences 
consist chiefly in general dimensions and size of the beak ; but there 
is much variation in both these particulars. The type cf Cabanis 
and Heine’s C. nesiotes, as pointed out by Dr. Bryant (P. B. S. N. 
H. x. p. 255), is probably a young bird. 
3. Coccyzus FERRUGINEUS. 
Coccyzus ferrugineus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 105, et Zool. Voy. 
Sulphur, p. 46, pl. 29; Bp. Consp. i. p..97. 
Nesococcyx ferrugineus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iy. p. 79. 
Rufus, pileo cineraceo : subtus pallide fulvus : alis extus rufis ; 
caude rectricibus externis pallide fulvis, ad apicem albicanti- 
bus ; prowimis utrinque versus apicem nigricante brunneo sub- 
obsolete notatis, duabus mediis dorso concoloribus - rostro ni- 
gricante, mandibula ad basin Jlava: long. tota 10, ale 5:2, 
caude 6. 
Hab. Cocos Island, Pacific. 
The typical specimen of this species is now in the British Museum, 
and is the only individual yet obtained, as far as I know, Cocos 
Island being far out of the track of ordinary collectors. The bird 
appears to me to be a true Coccyzus, though with somewhat of the 
rufous colouring of a Piaya. T have placed it in the yellow-billed 
