182 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, 

 Louisiana, and northern Florida, and west to South Dakota, Nebraska, and 

 Oklahoma; migrates through the West Indies and Central America; winters 

 in South America south to Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. 



b. Coccyzus americanus occident^lis Ridgway. California Cuckoo. [387a.] 



Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ridgway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887> 

 273. (Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Transition and Sonoran 

 zones from British Columbia to southern Lower California and Chihuahua, 

 and from the Pacific coast to eastern Colorado and western Texas; winter 

 home unknown, probably in South America; Costa Rica in migration. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus (Wilson). Black-billed Cuckoo. [388.] 



Ciiculus eryihro'phthalmus Wilson, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 16, pi. 28, fig. 2. 

 (Probably near Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds mainly in the Tran- 

 sition Zone from southeastern Alberta, southern Manitoba, southern 

 Quebec, and Prince Edward Island south to Kansas, Arkansas, North 

 Carolina, and mountains of Georgia; winters in South America 

 from Colombia to Peru. 



[Subfamily CUCTrLIN.fi:. True Cuckoos. 



Genus CUCULUS Linnaeus. 



Cticulus LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 110. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Cuculus canorus Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



Cuculus can6rus Linn^us. 

 Range. — Greater part of the Old World; accidental in Alaska. 



a. [Cuculus canorus canorus. Extralimital.] 



b. Cuculus canorus telephonus Heine. Kamchatka Cuckoo. [388.1.] 



Cuculus telephonus Heine, Journ. fur Orn., 1863, 352. (Japan.) 



Range. — An Asiatic subspecies, accidental on St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, 

 Alaska.] 



