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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 291-330 (313); wing, 133.5-147.5 

 (140.7); tail, 152-178 (162.7); exposed culmen, 27-30 (28.7); tarsus, 

 27-30 (29.1); outer anterior toe, 19-20.5 (20).° 



Islands of Barbuda and Antigua, Lesser Antilles; Montserrat?; 

 Swan Island, Caribbean Sea. 



Coccyzus seniculus (not Cuculus seniculus Latham) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1864, 121, part (monogr.). 



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

 1870, 166, part (monogr.).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 482, part— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 234 (An- 

 tigua), 240 (Barbuda); i, 1879, 487, part (Antigua; Barbuda).— Cory, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 365, part; viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua); Birds West Ind., 1889, 160, part; 

 Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 102, part (Antigua; Barbuda).— Bidgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 577 (Swan I.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 523, part (West Indies, part; Swan I.). 



(?) Coccyzus minor Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 765 (Montserrat). — 

 Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, 491 (Montserrat; habits). — Cory, Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 102, part (Montserrat). 



[Coccyzus] minor Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. — Sharfe, 

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



[Coccygus] minor Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19, part. 



Coccyzus minor nesiotes (not Coccygus nesiotes Cabanis) Kiley, Smithson. Misc. 

 Coll., xlvii, Nov. 8, 1904, 285, part (Barbuda; Antigua; Swan I.; crit.). 



Coccyzus minor rileyi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxviii, May 27, 1915, 105 

 (Barbuda, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



COCCYZUS MINOR VINCENTIS Clark. 



ST. VINCENT MANGROVE CTJCKOO. 



Similar in coloration to O. m. nesiotes but much larger; similar also 

 to O. m. abbotti, but averaging slightly darker and with bill larger 

 and much stouter. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 308-323 (314); wing, 142-152 

 (146.2); tail, 169-174 (171); exposed culmen, 30-32 (30.8); tarsus, 

 30.5-31.5 (30.8); outer anterior toe, 19.5-22 (20.7). 6 



