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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 268-315 (284); wing, 144-156.5 

 (150.1)'; tail, 133.5-156 (147.2); exposed culmen, 26-29 (28.4); tar- 

 sus, 25-28.5 (26.9) ; outer anterior toe, 18-22 (19.2).° 



Western United States and British Columbia (Fraser River at 

 Mount Lehman; Burrard Inlet; Kamloops; Mount Tolmie; Chilli- 

 wack); breeding southward to Cape San Lucas, Sinaloa (Mazatlan), 

 Chihuahua, etc.; eastward to Idaho (Fort Sherman, 1 specimen), 

 Colorado, and western Texas (Tom Green, Concho, and Kerr counties) ; 

 in winter southward as far as Costa Rica (San Jose). 



Coccyzus amerkanus (not Cuculus americanus Linnaeus) Woodhouse, in Rep. 

 Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 92, part (New Mexico).— Cooper, 

 Ora. Calif., 1870, 371 (Napa Valley; Sacramento).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 293 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, breeding).— Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 291, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 275, part.— Henshaw, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 8 (Provo, Utah); Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 47 

 (Provo, Utah), 164 (s. e. Arizona, summer resident); Zool. Expl. W. of 100th 

 Merid., 1875, 386 (Provo, Utah;. Cienega, Arizona).— Ridg way, Orn. For- 

 tieth Parallel, 1877, 558 (Sacramento, California, June; Truckee Valley, 

 Nevada, July); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, part; Norn. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 387, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 432 

 (Marysville, California, June; Murphy's, Calaveras Co., Sept.).— Drew, Auk, 

 ii, 1885, 17 (Colorado, breeding at 4,000-8,000 ft.).— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 425 

 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, up to 4,000 ft.).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 190 

 (Tom Green and Concho counties, w. Texas, breeding). 



(l)Coccygus amerkanus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 120, part (monogr.), 

 177 (near City of Mexico); 1870, 165, part (monogr.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 136 (Fraser R., at Mt. Lehman, Brit. Columbia). 



[Coccyzus] americanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 140, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. 



Coccygus americanus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 477, part.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 429, part.— Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 26 (Tucson, Arizona, June). 



C[occygus] americanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 476, part. 



o Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 cul- 

 men. 



Tarsus. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from California 



Seven adult males from Arizona 



One adult male from western Texas (Ft. Clark) 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from California 



Four adult females from Arizona 



Four adult females from western Texas (Ft. Clark and Ft. 

 Hancock) 



151.2 

 149.7 

 143.5 



149.1 

 153.2 



148. S 



147 



147.5 



145 



149.2 

 150.6 



29.7 



27.4 

 28.2 



27.5 



27.2 

 26.3 

 25.5 



27.1 

 27.8 



19.2 

 19.1 

 18.5 



19.4 

 19.8 



18.5 



