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lepsch and Iheeing, Zeitschr. Orn., 1885, 161 (Arroio Grande, Rio Grande 

 do Sul, b. Brazil).— Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 123 (Santa 

 Maria de Dota,' Costa Rica).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 103 

 (lower Rio Beni, Bolivia); v, 1893, 140, part (Chapada, Mattogrosso, s. w. 

 Brazil; descr. of supposed young is of young D. pavoninus) .— Koenigswald, 

 Journ. fur Om., 1896, 378 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 542 (Cordova, Jalapa, and Potrero, Vera Cruz; 

 Santa Efigenia and Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; Buctzotz and Izamal, Yucatan; 

 Coban, Cajabon, Choctum, and Mirandilla, Guatemala; Volcan de San 

 Miguel, Salvador; Santa Maria de Dota, Costa Rica; Lion Hill, and Paraiso, 

 Panama; Colombia to s. Brazil). — Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 303 

 (Sao Paulo); iv, 1900, 161 (Cantagallo, s. Brazil); vi, 1904, 335 (Paraguay).— 

 Bangs, Proc. New Engl., Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 24 (Boquete, Panama, 7,000 

 feet).— Hellmatr, Abb.. K. B. Akad. Wiss., ii Kl., xxii, iii Abth., 1906, 

 600 (crit.); Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 398 (Borba, Rio Maderia, Brazil).— 

 Reiseh, Denkw. Mat. -Nat. Kaiserl. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1910, 59 (Paranagua, etc., 

 n. e. Brazil).— Dabbene, Orn. Argent, 1910, 273 (Sapucay, Paraguay). — Car- 

 rlker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 568 (Bolson, Bebedero, Cerro de Santa 

 Maria, Pozo Azul de Pirris, and Buenos Aires de Terraba, Costa Rica; 

 habits). 



[Dromocqjx] phasianellus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 175. 



[Diplopterus] phasianellus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 110 (Brazil). 



Geococcyx phasianellus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25, livr. 5 (Cuculi), 1864, 41. 



Cuculus macrourus Verreaux and Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., i, 1849, 277 

 (Brazil; Bogota, Colombia). 



Dromococcyx mexicanus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, May, 1856, 957 (Cor- 

 dova, Vera Cruz, Mex. ; coll. A. Sall6). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 308 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; crit.); 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 321 (Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Sclater, and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 133 (Cajabon, Guatemala).'— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 300 

 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



Dromococcyx phasianellus mexicanus Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Nov. 25, 

 1881, 193: 



Dromococcyx rufigularis Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 233 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. G. N. Lawrence ;= young). 



Geophilus jasijatere Bertoni, Aves Nuev. Paraguay, 1901, 43 (Alto Parana, Para- 

 guay).— Lynch- Arribalzaga, Ap. Crit. Av. Parag. Bertoni, 1902, 342 (crit.). 



Genus CROTOPHAGA Linnseus. 



Crotophaga Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 105. (Type, C. ani Linnaeus.) 



Cuculidae (Crotophaginse) with only 8 rectrices, excessively deep 

 and compressed bill with elevated, strongly convex or arched and 

 sharply ridged culmen, wholly naked lores, and wholly blackish 

 (partly metallic) plumage. 



Bill about as long as head, nearly to decidedly more than twice as 

 deep as wide at anterior end of nostril, its greatest depth equal to 

 much more than length of gonys (usually exceeding distance from 

 nostril to tip of maxilla) ; culmen elevated, excessively compressed 

 and sharply ridged basally, arched or strongly decurved, in one 

 species (C. major) abruptly elevated for basal half; gonys about as 

 long as mandibular rami, nearly straight, ascending terminally, 



