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187. Piaya mexicana (Sw.). — Cuculus mexicanus, Sw. Phil. 

 Mag. 1827, p. 440. 



6 Juquila (May 1858). This is a different species of Piaya from 

 that which inhabits the tierra caliente of Vera Cruz and Guatemala. 

 The plumage is of a much brighter chestnut-red ; the lower belly is 

 hardly darker than the breast ; and the tail-feathers are bright ru- 

 fous, with a well-defined broad subapical band of black, tipped with 

 white. In the common bird of Vera Cruz, which I have until lately 

 supposed to be Swainson's Cuculus mexicanus, the tail-feathers, 

 looking at them from below, are nearly black, and have no defined 

 patch towards their termination as in the present bird, and the lower 

 belly is altogether black. See antea, p. 368, for description of Piaya 

 thermophila. 



188. Crotophaga sulcirostris, Sw. 

 Oaxaca. 



Fam. Rhamphastid^e. 



189. Rhamphastos carinatus, Sw. 

 Piaya Vicente (March). 



190. Pteroglossus torquatus (Wagl.). 

 Piaya Vicente (March). 



191. AULACORHAMPHUS WAGLERI. 



Xacatepec, S (March 1858). 



Fam. Picidje. 



192. Dryocopus guatemalensis. 



Llano Verde and Piaya Vicente. Rather small in dimensions. 



193. Picus varius, Linn. 

 Llano Verde ; Totontepec (Jan.). 



194. Picus jardinii, Malh. 

 Oaxaca, <3 . 



195. Chloronerpes ^ruginosus (Licht.). 

 Teotalcingo (March). 



196. Chloronerpes oleagineus. 

 Piaya Vicente (March) . 



197. Celeus castaneus (Wagl.). 

 Piaya Vicente (March). 



Fam. Psittacid^e. 



198. Conurus astec, Souance, Rev. Zool. 1857, p. 97. 

 Piaya Vicente (April 1859). 



