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(?) Goccyzus americanus (not Cuculus americanus Linnaeus?) Sclatbb, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 496 (Quilines, Buenos Aires, Argentina; crit.). — 

 Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1887, 133 (South America to Buenos Aires). — 

 Withington, Ibis, 1888, 468 (Lomas de Zamora, Argentina).— Sclater and 

 Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, 1889, 37, part (not description, which is of 

 C. americanus). — Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 308, part (Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina; Bahia, Brazil). — Koenigswald, Journ. fur Orn., 1896, 378 

 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil).— Holmberg, Segundo Censo Argentina, i, 1898, 516. — 

 Iheking, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 304 (Sao Paulo).— Kehr, Ibis, 1901, 

 229 (Gran Chaco, Paraguay). — Lonnberg, Ibis, 1903, 454 (San Luis, Bolivia, 

 Feb. 8). — Chubb, Ibis, 1910, 271 ((Sapucay, Paraguay, Jan.). — Dabbene, 

 Orn. Argent., 1910, 271 (Tucuman and Lomas de Zamora), 423 (La Rioja; Sal- 

 adillo, La Sierra). 



Cocq/zus americanus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 136 (Chapada, 

 Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil). 



(?) Coccygus bairdif (not Coccyzus bairdi Sclater) Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 273, 

 footnote (Paciencia, Brazil; crit.). 



(?) [Coccygus] hairdiit Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., iv, 1871, 450. 



Coccygus euleri Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., ser. 4, i, Jan., 1873, 72 (Cantogallo, s. e. 

 Brazil; coll. Berlin Mus.); 1874, 226 (Brazil). 



Coccyzus euleri Chapman, Auk, viii, 1891, 159 (Santarem, lower Amazon; Matto- 

 grosso; crit.). — Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1900, 161 (Cantogallo). 



[Coccyzus] euleri Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 164. 



Coccyzus lindeni Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, no. 8, Oct.-Nov., 1876, 81 (San- 

 tarem, lower Amazon; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



COCCYZUS MINOR MINOR (Gmelin)? 



MANGROVE CUCKOO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain grayish brown (deep hair brown), 

 very faintly glossed with bronzy, except on pileum, the middle pair 

 of rectrices dusky subterminally and narrowly tipped (except in worn 

 plumage) with paler grayish brown or dull whitish; other rectrices 

 black passing into grayish brown basally and broadly tipped with 

 white, the white terminal areas decreasing in extent from about 

 23-30 mm. on outermost pair to 3-S mm. on next to middle pair; 

 lores similar in color to pileum but somewhat darker, especially next 

 to eye; upper two-thirds (more or less) of auricular region dull black, 

 this continued, narrowly, beneath bare orbital space to the dusky 

 color in front of eye; lower portion of auricular region, suborbital and 

 malar regions, and entire under parts, together with axillars and 

 under wing-coverts, plain dull ochraceous-buff or cinnamon-buff, 

 usually paler on chin and upper throat; inner webs of remiges with 

 proximal two-thirds (more or less) lighter cinnamon-buff; maxilla 

 black, the mandible with basal two-thirds (more or less) yellow, the 

 terminal portion black; bare orbital space yellow (in life) ; iris brown; 

 legs and feet horn color (bluish gray in life?). 



Young. — Similar to adults but middle rectrices paler grayish 

 brown terminally, the lateral ones darker grayish brown with white (or 

 whitish) terminal areas, as in adults, but these much duller white and 



