BIRDS OF NOBTH AKD MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



Piaya mexicana Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 388 (Juquila, Oaxaca; 



crit.); I860, 285 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 322 (Oaxaca).— Schlbgbl, 



Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 57.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 162 (Chietla, Puebla).— Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



xvi, 1893, 786 (Juanacatlan and Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco).— Allen, Bull. 



Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 137, in text (crit.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves,ii, 1896,531 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic; Hacienda 



de San Marcos, Zapotlan, Guadalajara, and Bolafios, Jalisco; Guanajuato; 



Rio Tupila and Plains of Colima, Colima; Temascaltepec, Mexico; Acapulco 



and Xautipa, Guerrero; Juchatengo, Juquila, and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). 

 [Piaya] mexicana Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 

 P[iaya] c[ayana] mexicana Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, July 19, 1893, 138, 



in text (crit.). 

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



(Colima).— Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 349 (Caletic, 



Escuinapa, etc., s. Sinaloa).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1908, 498 



(crit.). 

 Pyrrhococcyx mexicanus Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 170 (crit.). — Finsch, 



Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, 1870, 356 (Mazatlan). 

 P\yrrhococcyx] mexicanus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 82 



(w. Mexico; diagnosis). 

 [Pyrrhococcyx] mexicanus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



202 (w. Mexico). 

 [Coccyzus] mexicanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 211, no. 8930. 

 Piaya caymnensis (not Coccyzus cayanensis Swainson) Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat 



Sci. Phila., i, 1849, 215 (Mazatlan, etc.). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1883, 426 (Acapulco, Guerrero). 

 [Piaya] cay anus (not Cuculus cayanus Linnseus) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 



110, part (Mexico). 

 Piaya cayana Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 273, part (Mazatlan, 



Sinaloa; Putla, Oaxaca; Bolafios, Hacienda San Marcos, and Zapotlan, Jalisco; 



Colima; Acapulco, and Xautipa, Guerrero). 

 [Piaya] cayana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. 



Genus HYETORNIS Sclater. 



Ptiloleptis (not Ptiloleptus Swainson, 1837) Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 121 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 6). (Type, Cuculus pluvialis 



Gmelin.) 

 Myetornis Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, April, 1862, 321. (Type, Cuculus plwvialis 



Gmelin.) 

 Hyetomantis Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., May, 1862, 203, footnote. (Type, Cuculus 



pluvialis Gmelin.) 



Large, long-tailed, arboreal Cuculinse (length about 410-530 mm.), 

 closely resembling the genus Piaya but differing in relatively shorter 

 and less graduated tail (little more than one and a half times as long as 

 wing, graduated for little if any more than one-half its length) , larger 

 bill and feet, and very different coloration (olivaceous or slaty above, 

 the tail black with broad white tips to rectrices, and under parts, at 

 least of body, chestnut) . 



