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wings and tail dull brownish green ; lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 shining blood-red ; under surface yellow, stained on the chest with blood-red, and crossed 

 on the breast by a band of mingled black and blood-red; bill bordered at the base by a 

 narrow line of dull white ; the remainder of the bill yellowish horn colour, with a broad 

 stripe of black along the upper mandible near the cutting edge, and the tip of the under 

 mandible black ; feet greenish black. 



Total length, 18 inches; bill, 5; wing, G| ; tail, 7i ; tarsi, 1^. 



Inhab. Realejo, Central America. 



This bird is about the same size as Pfcroglossus Aracari and P. pluricinctus, 

 to both of which species it is nearly allied. 



The figures are about half the natural size. 



" In our examination of the west coast of America from south to north, the 

 RamphaslidcB were first seen at Atacames, which is a little south of the equator ; 

 and they were subsequently frequently noticed at the different places touched at 

 as far as the Gulf of Fonseca, in 13° 17' N. Lat. This is, however, most certainly, 

 not their geographical limit, and probably not even on the coast." — Ed. 



Family— CUCULIDJ5. 



COCCYZUS FERRUGINEUS- Gould. 



Plate XXIX. 



Coccyzus ferrugineus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc, July 25, 1843. 



Spec. char. Cocc. capite cincreo, dorso alisque saturate ferrugineo-fusco, colore ad 

 apices remigum primorum pallescente ; caudd in medio fused, gradatim ad rectrices 

 externas albesccnte ; corpore subtusfulvo. 



Head grey, tinged on the crown with ferrugineous ; back and wings dark rusty brown, becom- 

 ing paler towards the extremities of the primaries, which are brown on their inner webs at 

 the tip ; two centre tail feathers sandy buff, passing into brown at the tip ; the two next 

 on each side sandy at the base deepening into brown, which is darkest on the outer web, 

 that nearest the central feathers slightly, and the next largely tipped with white ; the two 

 lateral feathers on each side are buff at the base, passing into white, the inner one of the 

 two with a line of brown down the basal two-thirds of its length ; all the under surface 

 buff, palest on the throat; bill olive black; under mandible yellow at the base; feet 

 black. 



Total length, 1H inches; bill, 1^; wing, 5^ ; tail, 6^: tarsi, 1£. 



Inhab. Cocos Island, North Pacific. 



