542 CUCULID^. 



Two closely allied species constitute the genus, of which D. phasianellus has a wide 

 range and occurs throughout Central America ; the other, I), pavoninus, is found in 

 Guiana and some of the adjoining districts. 



1. Dromococcyx phasianellus. 



Macropus phasianellus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 53, t. 42 (1824) '. 



Dromococcyx phasianellus, Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 353"; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 171 ^ ; Salv. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 486 '; V. Prantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 361 " ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239 "; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



p. 455'; Zeledon, An Mus. Nac. (/osta Rica, 1887, p. 123"; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



six. p. 426 °. 

 Dromococcyx mexicana, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 957 '°. 

 Dromococcyx mexicanus, Sol. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 308"; 1859, p. 368"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 133"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 300". 

 Dromococcyx rufigularis, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 233''. 



Hupra saturate fuscus, interscapulii plumis stricte rufo marginatis, tectricibus supracaudalibus elongatis macula 

 parva albida termiuatis, capitis et cervicis lateribus pileo concoloribus, stria postoculari ad cervicem 

 utrinque producta et corpore subtTis aibis, gutture et pectore nigro guttatis ; alls fuscis, tectricibus 

 omnibus fulvo limbatis ; cauda fusca, infra griseo tincta, rectricibus omnibus (mediis exceptis) albo termi- 

 uatis et fascia subterminali nigra notatis ; rostro corneo, mandibula pallida ; pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 

 circa 15-0, alse 6-6, caudae rectr. med. 8-5, rectr. lat. 4'7, rostri a rectu 1'17, tarsi 1'4. (Descr. maris ex 

 Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



2 mari similis. 



Juv. gutture toto et stria postoculari laete fulvis. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova [Salle ^^), Jalapa [de Oca ^2), Potrero, Sauta Efigenia, Cacoprieto 

 [Sumichrast^), N. Yucatan^, Buctzotz, Izamal [G. F. Gaumer); Guatemal.i 

 [Van Patten^% Coban, Cahabon i3, Choctum, Mirandilla [0. S. & F. D. G.) ; 

 Salvador, Volcan de San Miguel ( W. B. Richardson) ; Costa Rica [v. Frantzius ^ ^), 

 Santa Maria de Dota [Zeledon ^) ; Panama, Lion Hill [M'Leannan ^*}, Paraiso 

 [A. Hughes). — South Ameeica, from Colombia to South Brazil 9. 



Though as widely distributed as Diplopterus ncevius, this Cuckoo is much less known 

 owing doubtless to its greater rarity, our own experience respecting it being confined 

 to the capture of a few specimens by our hunters at rare intervals. We have no notes 

 on its habits. Like D. ncevius it appears to be a bird of the lowlands, but is found as 

 high as 4000 feet in the mountains of Vera Cruz, and also in Vera Paz in Guatemala. 



Though the Mexican bird was separated by Bonaparte from that of South America 

 under the name of Dromococcyx mexicana ^°, no diiferential characters were given, and 

 it now appears that practically none exist between them. In 1867 Lawrence described 

 a bird sent from Guatemala by Van Patten, " from a high mountian region," as Dromo- 

 coccyx rufigularis^^. We have similar birds from Paraiso Station on the Panama 

 Railway Line, which we have no hesitation in pronouncing to be young examples 

 of D. phasianellus, and thus place Lawrence's name as a synonym of this bird, a 

 position long ago assigned it by Salvin. 



