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Southern Mexico, in States of Sonora (Sierra de los Alamos), 

 Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Escuinapa; La Balla; Amatlan de Canas), Jalisco 

 (San Sebastian; Los Masos; La Laja; Las Canoas; Tuxpan; Wake- 

 nakili Mountains; Zapotilti; La Cienega; Hacienda San Marcos; 

 Volcan de Colima; Rio Santa Maria), Durango (Presidio), Michoacan 

 (Volcan de Jorulla; Morelia; Uruapan), Colima, Guerrero (Xautipa), 

 Oaxaca (Pluma; Cerro San Felipe; Tehuantepec; Juchitan; Duras- 

 nal; Juquila; Sierra de Santo Domingo; Cacoprieto), Vera Cruz 

 (C6rdova; Mirad6r; Jalapa; Los Cerillos; Huatusco), Puebla (Zentla; 

 Soledad; Huehuetlan), Yucatan (Merida; Xbac; Tekanto; Rio 

 Lagartos; Peto;Temax;Progreso;Izalam;Chichen-Itza) and Chiapas 

 (Tonala; Tuxtla Gutierrez), and Territory of Tepic (Santiago), and 

 southward through Guatemala (Villa Nueva; San Geronimo; Vera 

 Paz; Duenas; hills above Quiche ; gorge of La Campafia, Eio Chixoy; 

 Toliman; Amatitlan) through Honduras to northern Nicaragua 

 (Ocotal; San Rafael del Norte, Matagalpa). 



(?) [Phasianus] mexicanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 741 (based on Hoitalotl 

 Hernandez, Nova Anim. Nova-Hisp., app. 25; see Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 74; Cabania and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 97, 

 footnote). — Latham, Index Om., ii, 1790, 632. 



G[eococcyx] mexicanus Oabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 97 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz; excl. syn. part). 



Geococcyx mexicanus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 41. — Law- 

 bence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 205 (Merida, Yucatan); Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., ii, i874, 293 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; habits); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 

 1876, 34 (Juchitan, Oaxaca). 



Geococcyx affinis Haetlaub, Rev. Zool., via, June, 1844, 215 (Guatemala; coll. 

 Bremen Mus.?). — Ghat, Gen. Birds, ii, 1847, pi. 114. — Gambel, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1849, 217 (crit.).— Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 

 305 (Durasnal, Oaxaca); 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 387 (Juquila, Oaxaca); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 324 (Jalapa).— Sclateh and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 134 

 (Guatemala; habits). — Owen, Ibis, 1861, 67 (San Ger6nimo, Guatemala 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 307, 311 (ana- 

 tomical). — Botjcabd, Liste Ois. r6col. Guat., 1878, 24; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1883, 454 (Yucatan; habits). — Nehbkobn, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 69 (Yucatan, 

 descr. eggs).— Febbari-Peeez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 162 (Hue, 

 huetlan, Puebla).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 205 (Tekanto- 

 Yucatan; habits). — Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 421 (Sierra de 

 Alamos, Sonora; Presidio, Durango; Hacienda de San Marcos, Zapotlan 

 and Volcan de Colima, Jalisco; Xautipa, Guerrero; Los Cerrillos, Jalapa 

 Zentla, and Huatusco, Vera Cruz; Peto, Temax, Progreso, and Izalam, 

 Yucatan; Sierra Santo Domingo, Oaxaca; Vera Paz, Duefias, and San 

 Geronimo, Guatemala).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1896, 536 (Potrero, etc., Vera Cruz; Zentla, Soledad, etc., Puebla; Morelia, 

 Michoacan; Juquila, Cacoprieto, Tehuantepec, etc., Oaxaca; Rio Lagartos, 

 Tekanto, etc., Yucatan; hills above Quiche\ gorge of La Campafia, Rio 

 Chixoy, Toliman, etc., Guatemala; San Rafael del Norte, Matagalpa, Nica- 

 ragua; etc.)— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Amatitlan 

 Guatemala).— Miller (W. DeW.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 350 

 (Escuinapa and La Balla, s. Sinaloa).— Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 1906*, 



