BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 101 
Geococeyx californianus (Lezss.). 
ROAD-RUNNER. 
Saurothera californiana Borra, Nouv. Ann. Mus., IV. 1835, 123, pl. 9 (Cape St. 
Lucas). 
Geococcyx californianus Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 303 (Cape 
St. Lucas). Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, II. 
1874, 473 (Xantus’s specimens from Cape St. Lucas “smaller than those of 
Upper California”). Brxtpine, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 543 (Cape Re- 
gion). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 285 (Cape Region). 
Road-runner Bryant, Zoe, II. 1891, 192 (San José del Cabo). 
Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar are somewhat at odds in their views regarding 
this species, the former noting it as “common” without qualification as to 
certain localities, the latter as “a rare bird everywhere excepting at San José 
del Cabo, where it was fairly common, but confined almost exclusively to the 
gardens and green thickets along the river.” 
P. E. Botta stated as early as 1835 that the range of the Road-runner ex- 
tends from Cape St. Lucas to San Francisco. Mr. Bryant, however, reports 
seeing “ but one individual while crossing the peninsula from the Ocean to the 
Gulf in the latitude of Comondu”’ despite ‘‘ the abundance of lizards and other 
suitable food,” and adds that “they were rarely seen along the route from 
Comondu to San Quintin,” although a little further northward “ Mr. Anthony 
has found them from the coast to well into the pines on San Pedro Martir at 
an altitude of 7,000 feet ’? (Bryant), and ‘‘ quite common about the mines, and 
much more so near the water holes near the mission’ at San Fernando. 
The Road-runner occurs from California to Mexico, and is strictly resident 
wherever found. 
Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ripew. 
CALIFORNIA CUCKOO. 
This Cuckoo, which is now reported from the Cape Region for the first 
time, was found by Mr. Frazar only at San José del Rancho, where it “first 
appeared on July 5, and soon became rather common, but did not begin nest- 
ing until the latter part of the month.’ It probably occurs on the Sierra de 
la Laguna, also, for the people living there described it to Mr. Frazar, assert- 
ing that “it comes only in the time of the waters,” 7. ¢, the rainy season, 
which begins in July. This was confirmed by a man at San José del Rancho, 
who spends much time on the Sierra hunting deer, and who, seeing a Cuckoo 
in Mr, Frazar’s possession, remarked that he had often met with the bird on 
1 Anthony, Auk, XII. 1895, 138. 
