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1892, 326 (San Jose, Costa Rica; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Richmond, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 517 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; habits).— 

 Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 87 (Los Amates, Gualan, Patu- 

 lul, San Jose, and Lake Amatitlan, Guatemala). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1908, 499 (crit.; Mexico to Panama). — Carrikbr, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vi, 1910, 565 (Pigres, Guayabo, Coliblanco, Bonilla, Santo Domingo 

 de San Mateo, Laguaria de Dota, Guapiles, Juan Vinas, Carrilo, and Boruca, 

 Costa Rica; habits; crit.). 



Piaya cyanea mehleri Cherrib, Expl. Zool. Merid. C. R., 1893, 58 (Palmar, Costa 

 Rica). 



Pyrrhococeyx mehleri Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 167, 168 (Costa Rica; crit.). 



P[yrrhococcyx] mehleri Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft 1, 1863, 83 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz). 



[Pyrrhococeyx] mehleri Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 202 

 (Jalapa). 



Piaya thermophila Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 43 (Coban, Duefias, 

 and Yzabal, Guatemala). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 118- (Honduras; habits). 



P[iaya] thermophila Forbes and Robinson," Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, no. 2, 1898, 

 43 (crit.). 



Piaya cayana thermophila Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v. July 19, 1893, 139 

 (s. Mexico to Panama; crit.).— Richmond, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 

 628 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900', 

 16 (Loma del Leon, Panama); iii, 1902, 24 (Boquete, Panama, 4,000 feet); 

 Auk, xviii, 1901, 360 (Divala, Panama); xxiv, 1907, 292 (Boruca, Costa Rica); 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 143 (Ceiba and Yaruca, Honduras). — 

 Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 1906, 129 (Chichen Itza, Yucatan).— 

 Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1906, 214 (Sabana de 

 Panama).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., 1910, 261 (Guayabo and 

 Coliblanco, Costa Rica; habits). 



Piaya nigricrissa (not of Sclater, 1860) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 300 

 (Lion Hill, Panama); viii, 1867, 177 (David, Panama).— Sclater and Salvni, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 366 (Lion Hill, Panama; crit.). 



Piaya cayana nigricrissa Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 194, 

 part (Cbiriqui, Panama). 



Coccyzus viridirostris Wurttemberg, Naumannia, 1852, ii, 55 ("Mexico"). 



[Piaya] viridirostris Bonaparte (ex Wurttemberg MS.), Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 

 121 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 6). 



Piaya viridirostris Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, May, 1856, 957. 



Pyrrhococeyx viridirostris Cabanis, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft 1, 1862, 84, in text. 



Piaya circe (not of Bonaparte, 1850) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Baa, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 

 1864, 57, part (Costa Rica; Guatemala). 



PIAYA MEXICANA (Swainson). 



MEXICAN SQTJIRKEL-CTTCKOO. 



Resembling P. cayana ihermopMla, but colored portion of under 

 surface of rectrices cinnamon-rufous (instead of brownish black) with 

 a dull black area immediately preceding the white tip, general colora- 

 tion much lighter, and tail relatively much longer. 



Adults (.sexes alike). — Upper parts plain light cinnamon-rufous, 

 becoming gradually paler (sometimes slightly tinged with grayish) 

 on pileum and deeper on tail; remiges tipped with rather light grayish 

 brown; rectrices crossed by a broad subterminal band of brownish 



