276 COCCYZUS AMEEICANUS, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO 



Am. iv, 1842, 293, pi. 275.— Gould, B. Eur. pi. 242.— Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 457.— 

 GosSE, B. Jam. 279.— WooDn., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 92.— Leotaud, Ois. Trin. 350.— 

 Newt., Ibis, 1859, 149.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1860, 252; 1H64, 120; 1870, 165; Ibis, 

 1860, 43 ; Cat. 1862, 322.— Lawr., Ann. Lye. ix, 1868, 128 (Costa Rica).— Grav, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8914.— Gundl., Rep. F. N. i, 295 (Cuba).— COUES, 

 Key, 1872, 190, fig. 126. 



Piaya americana, Less., Traits Orn. 1831, 142. 



Eryihrophrys americatius, Bp., Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 40. 



Cureus americanus, Bp., Cat. Metod. Ucc. Europ. 1842, 50. 



Coccystes americanus, Keys. & Blas., Wirbeltli. Europ. 1840, 149. 



Coccygua americanus, Cab., J. f. O. 1856, 104 ; 1862, 167 ; Mas. Hein. iv, 1862, 75.— Bd., 

 B. N. A. 1858, 76.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 155.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 371.— Snow, 

 B. Kans. 1873, 2.— Allen, Bull. JI. C. Z. ili, 1872, 180.— Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 XV, 1872, 233 (Iowa).— B. B. & R., N. A. B. ii, 1874, 477, pi. 48, f. 4 ("3" err.). 



Coccyzus pyrrhopterus, ViEiLL., Nonv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii, 270; Ency. Met. iii, 1343. 



Cuculus cinerosus, Temm., Man. Qrn. iv, 18:i5, 277. 



Coccystes flavirostris, Gloger, J. f. O. 1854, 223. 



Coccyzus bairdii, ScL., P. Z. S. 1864, 120.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 211, No. 8923.— 

 ** Pelzeln Dm. Bras. 273." 



(?) Coccygua julieni' IuAWe., Pr. piiil. Acad. 1863, 106, Ann. Lye. viii, 1804. 42, 99 (Som- 

 brero). ■ ; ,:([ i 



Bab. — Eastern United States and part of the British Provinces. West to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Also observed in California. South through Mexico and various West 

 India Islands and Central America into South America as far as Buenos Ayres. Acci- 

 dental in Europe. See Gould's & Schlegel's works ; also, Hart., Man. 1872, 124 (five 

 British instances, with the references). 



Zieutenant Warren's Expedition.— 8980, 8987, Platte River; 8983, 8985, Loup Fork of 

 Platte : 8986, Elkhorn River. 



Confusion has arisen in the employ of the name dominicus for different species. Nutt- 

 all applied it to our Black-billed Cuckoo ; Bonaparte used it for a species, of which he 

 says (correctly or not) "rostra nigerrimo ;" Sclater, for the West Indian Mangrove 

 Cuckoo ; Baird apparently relegated it to the insular variety of americanus, afterwards 

 named bairdii by Bclater. But, as Cabanis and Heine determined, there. is no doubt 

 whatever that it is merely a synonym of americanus. 



I am satisfied of the necessity of reducing the C. bairdii, ScL., to americanus, and the 

 same may be found necessary with C.julieni. 



Cabanis and Heine have made two species of the rusty- bellied, yellow-billed " Man- 

 grove" Cuckoos; it does not appear, however, that there is more than one species, the 

 synonymy of which may be arranged as in the accompanying foot-note.* 



Having already compared the North American distribution of this 

 species with that of the Black-billed, it only remains to note its Pacific 



* Coccyzus sexiculus, (Lath.) Fieill. 



Cuculus minor, Gm., i, 411 (ex P. 1. 813.) (Nomen ineptum.) 



Coccyzus minor, Gp-ay, Gen. of B. ii, 457 ; Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8917. 



Cuculus senieulus, Lath., Ind. Orn. i, 219.— Steph., Gen. Zool. ix, 125. 



Coccyzus senieulus, ViEiLL., Ency. Meth. 1346. — Br., Consp. i, 1850, 111. — SCL., Cat. 1862, 



323; P. Z. S. 1864, 121.— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 170. 

 Coccygua senieulus, Cae. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, 78. 

 Coccygus lielviventris, Cais., Schomb. Guiana, iii, 714. 



Sah. — Continental Tropical America. Trinidad; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique. 



C. SENICULUS var. NESIOTES. 



Coccyzus senieulus, KcTT. JIan. i, 1832, 558.— AuD., Orn. Biog. ii, 1834, 390, pi. 169; Syn. 



1839, 183 ; B. Am. iv, 1842, 303, pi. 277;— GosSE, B. Jam. 1847, 281.— Sall^, V. Z. 



S. 1857, 234.— Newt,, Ibis, 1859, 150.— Cass., Pr. Phila. Acad. 1860, 377.— SCL., 



P. Z. S. 1861, 79.— Coues, Key, 1872, 190. 

 Eryihrophrys senieulus, Bp., Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 40. 

 Piaya minor, Less., Traits Orn. 1831, 141. 

 Coccygua minor. Cab., J. f. 0. 1856, 104.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 76.— B. B. & R., N. A. B. ii, 



1874, 482, pi. 48, f. 3 (" 4" err.). 

 Coccyzus dominicus, (?) Bp., Consp. i, 1850, 112 (gives black biU). — ScL., Cat. 1862, 323 



(not of Linnaeus). 

 Coccygus nesiotes. Cab., Mus. Hein. iv, 1862, 78.— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 170.— ScL., P. Z. S. 



1864, 121.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 210, No. 8918. 



Sab. — Greater Antilles and Florida. 



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