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Costa Rica, it is found as high as 6000 feet in the mountains. He remarks that birds 

 from the Atlantic coast seem to be decidedly the darkest, those from the Pacific coast 

 considerably paler, while specimens from the interior are palest ^^. 



We never met with it in Guatemala, but it has been recorded from all the other 

 Central- American States, as well as from Eastern and Western Mexico. 



Its breeding-habits, as described by Brewer 4, resemble those of C. americanus. Its 

 nest is a very slight flat structure of twigs, and the eggs, usually three in number, are 

 oval and of a glaucous-green colour. 



Two other forms of C. minor have been recognized in the bird of the Bahamas, 

 which is the C. maynardi of Eidgway, and the Dominica bird, which Capt. Shelley has 

 called C. dominicce. The diff"erential characters of the three forms are given on 

 plate xii. of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' ^^. 



2. Coccyzus americanus. 



Cuculus americanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 170 '. 



Coccyzus americanus, Bp. Journ. Ac. Phil. iii. pt. 2, p. 267^; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 252'; 1864, 



p. 177 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 43 ' ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 366 ' ; Cab. J. f . Orn. 1862, p. 167 ' ; 



v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 361'; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, ii, p. 477'; 



Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 293"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 120''; Ferrari- Perez, Pr. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 162"; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 577"; Zeledon, An. Mus. 



Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 123"; Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 372"; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



xix. p. 308 '" ; Cheri-ie, Auk, 1892, p. 327 " ; Cory, Birds West Indies, p. 102 '". 



Supra fuseo-griseus, seneo vix micans, capite summo et cauclse rectricibus mediis unicoloribus, his ad apicem 

 nigricantibus, rectricibus reliquis nigris, macula terminali alba notatis ; alls dorso conooloribus, remigibus 

 intus ferrugineis interdum medialiter omnino hujus coloris, subalaribus albis cervino vix tinctis : subtus 

 albus, pectore vix griseo lavato ; rostro nigro, maxillse margine inferiore et maxilla praeter apicem flaviJis ; 

 pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota circa 12-0, alae 5-8, caudse rectr. med. 6-0, reetr. lat. 3"7, rostri a rictu 1*2, 

 tarsi 0-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Cozamel I., Yucatan : April. Mus. nostr.) 



Sexus similes. 



Hab. North Ameeica, temperate regions from New Brunswick, Canada, and British 

 Colombia southwards^. — Mexico, Moctezuma [Ferrari-Perez], Mazatlan ( G^rayso/t), 

 Calvillo {W. B. Eichardson), Nuevo Leon (F. JB. Armstrong), Xicotencal, Tampico 

 ( W. B. Eichardson), Mexico city ( White ^), Las Vigas, Plan del Rio, Paso Nuevo 

 {Ferrari-Ferez i^), Jalapa [de Oca, Ferrari-Perez), Vera Cruz [SaUe ^), La Antigua 

 {M. Trujillo), Cozumel I. {G. F. Gaumer^^); Guatemala (Constancia), Coban^, 

 Duenas (0. S. & F. D. G.) ; Hondueas, Ruatan 1. (G. F. Gaumer^^); Nicaeagda, 

 Volcan de Chinandega {W. B. Eichardson); Costa Rica [v. Frantzius'' ^), San 

 Juan, Cartago [Zeledon ^% San Jose [Cherrie ^'^) ; Pak4.ma, Lion Hill [M-Leannan% 

 — South Ameeica generally, from Colombia to Buenos Ayres ^^ ; Antilles ^^, Swan 

 Island ^3. 



The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is found sparingly throughout Mexico and Central 

 America from the coast to an altitude of at least 5000 or 6000 feet in the mountains. 



