•i36 BIRDS OF BRITISH GriANA, 



200. Coccyzus minor. 

 MAuS"GROVE (.'lckoo. 



Cuculug minor Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 411, 1788 (Cayenne). 

 Coccygus helviventris Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 714, 1848. 

 Coccygus minor Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. (54 (Briti.sh Guiana) ; Quelch, 



Timehri (2) v. pp. 95, 96, 1891 if George town j. 

 Coccyzus minor Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 304, pi. xii. fig. 2, 



1891 ("British Guiana): Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 151, no. 1474, 1912. 



" Baby-bird,"' " Foolish-bird '" (Qnekh). 



Adult male. Back, "ings, and middle tail-feather? j.ale greyish 

 brown ; inner webs of quills, towards the base, deep buff ; middle 

 tail-feathers blackish towards the tips, outer feathers for the most 

 part black with broad white tips ; head ash-grey ; a broad black 

 line in front and behind the eye ; throat and fore-neck ashy grey 

 with a tinge of buff ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, and quill- 

 lining deep buff. 



Total length 310 mm., cnlnien 2G, wing 133, tail 1G6, tarsus 27. 

 The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Essequebo Kiver. 



Adult female. Similar in the colour of the plumage to the adult 

 male, but larger in size. Wing 141 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Essequebo River (McConnell collec- 

 tion) ; Georgetown {Quelch). 



Ejctralimital Range. Cayenne (Gmelin), Xorth-east Brazil, 

 Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, West India Islands, Central 

 America to Mexico and Coast of Louisiana. 



Jlahits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 714) 

 the habits of this bird are the same as those of Piaga minutus 

 ( = P. rutila, p. 441). The " Warraus " call it Kuaguei. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. pp. 95, 9G) met with this bird 

 in Georgetown, where it is known by the name of Baby-bird. He 

 also writes that it is sometimes seen among the large mango and 

 .=our-sop trees about the town, where, except when it is in the 

 act of catching insects, it remains as if dead to its surroundings. 

 The name Foolish-bird is also apjdied to this bird. 



