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Adult male.— Length (skins), 280-323 (305); Wing, 136-144 (140.4); 

 tail, 152.5-168 (162); exposed culmen, 29-31.5 (30.1); tarsus, 26-30 

 (29.3); outer anterior toe, 19.5-21 (20.5).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 287-321 (305); wing, 137-148 

 (141.6); tail, 151.5-177 (166.4); exposed culmen, 28-30.5 (29.6); 

 tarsus, 28-31 (29.5); outer anterior toe, 19.5-21 (20.4) . 6 



Pacific coast district of Central America and Mexico, from Costa 

 Rica (San Jose; Punta Arenas; La Palma de Nicoya; Bebedero; 

 Mojica; San Lucas; Pigres; Pozo del Rio Grande) northward through 

 Nicaragua (Chinandega; Volcan de Chinandega; Realejo; San Juan 

 del Sur; Sucuya), Salvad6r (La Libertad), Oaxaca (Tapana; Caco- 

 prieto), and Guerrero (Dos Arroyos) to Tepic (San Bias ■ Maria Madre, 

 Tres Marias Islands) . 



Coccyzus minor (not Cuculus minor Gmelin) Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 47 (Punta Arenas, Costa Rica).— Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 

 1887, 123, part (w. Costa Rica).— Chereie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 

 536, part (Pacific coast Costa Rica, up to 6,000 ft.); Auk, ix, 1892, 326, 

 part (San Jose' and Pacific coast Costa Rica; crit.). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 523, part (Dos Arroyos, Guerrero; Tapana 

 and Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; La Libertad, Salvador; Chinandega, San Juan del 

 Sur, and Sucuya, Nicaragua; Punta Arenas, La Palma de Nicoya, and San 

 JoseV Costa Rica). — Nelson, North Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 42 (Maria Madre 

 I., Tres Marias). 



[Coccyzus] minor Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. — Shakpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 163, part. 



Coccyzus minor minor Bangs, Auk, xxiv, July, 1907, 292 (Pozo del Rio Grande, 

 s. w. Costa Rica). — Careiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 563 (Pigres, 

 Mojica, and Bebedero, w. Costa Rica). 



Coccyzus seniculus (not Cuculus senfculus Latham) Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 v, 1882, 401 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa Rica); vi, 1883, 376 (San Juan del 

 Sur, Nicaragua); vi, 1884, 388 (Sucuya, Nicaragua). 



Coccyzus minor palloris Ridgwat, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxviii, May 27, 1915, 

 105 (Pigres, w. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



<* Eleven specimens. 



Ten specimens. 



