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Eastern North America, in Lower and Upper Austral Zones and 

 more southern portions of Transition Zone, breeding from southern 

 Florida and along Gulf coast to southern Texas northward to New 

 Brunswick (Nova Scotia?), Quebec, Ontario, southern Michigan, Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and in Mexican States of Ta- 

 maulipas and Nuevo Le6n; westward to wooded valleys of streams 

 crossing Great Plains; south in winter through eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Colombia (Bonda, Santa Marta; Medellin, Antio- 

 quia), Venezuela (San Crist6bal; Altagracia; Nericagua), Trinidad, 

 and western Ecuad6r (Chimbo), and to West Indies in general (Ba- 

 hamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Porto Rico, St. Croix, Barbuda, Barbados, 

 Carriacou, Bequia, Grenada) and to Swan Island, Caribbean Sea. 

 (Said to breed in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, and some other islands, but 

 the breeding bird of the West Indies, at least the Lesser Antilles, 

 may be O. a. julieni.) Accidental in Greenland, England, Belgium, 

 and France. 



[Cuculus] americanus Linn.bus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 111 (South Carolina; 

 based on Cuculus carolinianus Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, 9, pi. 9); ed. 12, 

 i, 1766, 170.— Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 416.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 i, 1790, 219. 



Cuculus americanus Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 58. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. 

 Zool., ix, pt. i, 1815, 93. — Schlegel, Rev. Crit. Ois. Eur., 1844, 51.— Hartlng, 

 Man. Brit. Birds, 1872, 124 (accidental in England). 



Coccyzus americanus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 367; 

 Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [27]; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 42.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 18, pi. 2; v, 1839, 520; Synopsis, 1839, 187; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., iv,. 1842, 293, pi. 275.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., Land Birds, 1832, 551; 2d ed., 1840, 652.— Gould, Birds Europe, iii, 

 1837, pi. 242, and text. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 279. — Woodhouse, in 

 Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 92, part (Indian Territory; 

 Texas). — Glogee, Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 223. — Martens, Journ. fur Orn., 

 1859, 215 (Bermudas).— Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 149 (St. Croix; 



= Records for Brazil, Argentina, etc., probably pertain chiefly if not wholly to C. a. 

 julieni. 



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Locality. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



FEMALES. 



Six aduh females from Maryland (1), District of Columbia (2), 

 and Virginia (3) '. 



Three adult females from South Carolina (May) 



One adult female from Florida (May, July) 



Three adult females from eastern Texas (May, July) 



Two adult females from southern Illinois (1) and southern 

 Indiana (1) 



Two adult females from Cuba (April 29— one without date) . . . 



Three adult females of C. julieni (sex of one undetermined). . . 



Twelve adult females of C. a. occidentals 



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