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6. Coccyzus minor maynardi Ridgway. 



MAYNAKD'S CUCKOO. 



Coccyzus maynardi Eidgway, Manual North American Birds, 1887, 274. 

 Coccyzus minor maynardi Allen, Ms. 



(B 71 part, C 292 part, E 386 part, C 429 part, C 38G«.) 



Geographical range: Bahama Islands and southern Florida; Cuba?. 



Within the United States the range of Maynard's Cuckoo, a somewhat 

 smaller and paler race than the preceding, and from which it has been separated 

 within the last decade, is a still more restricted one, and it has so far only been 

 found at Key West, where it is rather rare, but it is thought to breed there in 

 limited numbers. It is likely to occur also in suitable localities at points along 

 the east coast of Florida, north to about latitude 27° and possibly still farther. 

 It is evidently only a summer visitor to our shores, retiring south again in winter. 

 It is said to be common throughout the Bahamas, and Mr. J. S. Northrop, on a 

 recent visit to Andros Island, in the spring of 1890, obtained several specimens 

 of tliis Cuckoo there and saw others. Their notes were frequently heard by him 

 in the mangroves or near by. The stomachs contained the remains of small 

 insects and grasshoppers. 



Their general habits, mode of nidification, and eggs doubtless resemble 

 those of the Yellow and Black-billed Cuckoos very closely. There are no 

 positively identified eggs of Maynard's Cuckoo in the United States National 

 Museum collection, but they are not likely to differ any in color or much in 

 size from those of the preceding species. 



7. Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus). 



YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 



Cuculus americanus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, I, 1758, III. 



Coccyzus americanus Bonaparte, Journal Academy Natural Sciences, Phila., Ill, ii, 

 1824. 367. 



(B 69, C 291, E 387, C 429, U 3S7.) 



Geographical range: Eastern North America; north in the Dominion of Canada 

 to Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick, southern Quebec, and Ontario to about latitude 

 45° 30'. In the United States, through southern Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, southern 

 Minnesota, and South Dakota; west to Nebraska, Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas; 

 south to Florida, the Gulf coast, and the West India Islands; in winter to eastern Mexico, 

 and Costa Eica, Central America. Casual to eastern Colorado, Wyoming, and North 

 Dakota. Accidental in Greenland, Great Britain, and Belgium. 



The breeding range of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, also known as "Rain 

 Crow" or "Rain Dove," "Kow-Kow," "Wood Pigeon," "Indian Hen," and 

 in some of the West India Islands as "May Bird," is coextensive with its geo- 

 graphical distribution in the United States and the southern portions of the 



