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ciliated. Tarsi longer than the toes, very stout. Wings very short and concave; 
the tertials as long as the p>rimaries. Tail longer than the head and. hody , com- 
posed of ten narroiv, much graduated feathers. — 2 Specc. 
affinis Hartlaub, Revue Zool. 1844. 215. = Geococcyx mexicanus Strickl. 
californianus Baird, Birds N. America 73. — Cabanis, Mus. Heine IV*. 06. 
— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 40. [California. Mexico. T a 
Saurothera calif omiana Lesson, Compt. Buffon VI. 420; Ann. Mus. 1835. T'>. 9. 
Cnculus viaticus Lichtenstein, Preisverz. mex. Th. 1. 
Saurothera Bottae Lesson, Traité Ornith. 145. 
Geococcyx variegata Wagler, Oken's Isis 1831. 524. 
Diplopterus viaticus Boie, Oken's Isis 1831. 541. 
Leptostoma longicauda Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 140. 325. 
Geococcyx viaticus, G. mexicanus Gray, Genera Birds II. 453. — Cassin, 
Illustr. Birds Californ. 213. Tb. 36. 
Paisano. Road Runner. Chapparal Cock. Correo Camino. 
erythropygius Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 42. — Coccyyus erythropygus 
Less. 
guira Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 43. = Crotophaga guira Steph. 
marginatus Gray, Handl. Birds II. 209. = Geococcyx mexicanus Stricrl. 
mexicanus Strickland, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1842. VIII. 544. — Cabanis, 
Mus. Heine IV a . 97. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 41. \ Mexico. 
Hoitlallose Fernandez, Anim. nov. Hisp. 25. 
Phasianus mexicanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 741. 
Saurothera marginata Kaup, Oken's Isis 1832. 991. TT. 26. 
'Cuculus velox Karwinski, Münch, gelehrte Anzeigen 1836. III.- 95. 
Geococcyx velox Gray, Genera Birds II. 453. 
Geococcyx affinis Hartlaub, Bevue Zool. 1844. 215. 
Geococcyx marginatus Gray, Handl. Birds II. 209. 
Saurothera mexicana Supra I. 835. 
Siguamonte. Guarda camino. 
mexicanus Gray, Genera Birds II. 453. = Geococcyx californianus Baird. 
naevius Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 42. = Diplopterus naevius Boie. 
phasianellus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cuculi 42. = Diplopterus phasianellus 
Gray. 
variegata Wagler, Oken's Isis 1831. 524. = Geococcyx californianus Baird. 
velox Gray, Genera Birds II. 453. — Geococcyx mexicanus Strickl. 
viaticus Gray, Genera Birds II. 453. = Geococcyx californianus Baird. 
GE0C0L APTES (Picidae. — -p] terra, xoXolktq scalpere) Swainson, Classif. Birds 
1837. II. 309. = Picus Lin. 
Synon.: Agripicus Bonap. 
Bill as in Colaptes, but with a faint lateral ridge close to the basal half 
of the culmen. Tip of the upper mandible wide and depressed. Wings very 
short. Tarsus, anterior and versatile toes, all of the same length, 
arator Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 113. = Picus arator Cuv. 
olivaceus Gray, Handl. Birds II. 203. = Picus arator Cuv. 
terrestris Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 310. = Picus arator Cuv. 
GE0C0RAPHUS (Alaudidae. — terra, xopacpoç nom. propr.) Cabanis, Wiegm. 
Archiv 1847. XIII. 328. = Alauda Lin. 
Synon.: Mirafra Horsf. — Plocealauda Hodgs. — Geocoryplms Gray, 
elegantissimus v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1868. XVI. 228. = Alauda ele- 
gantissima. 
javanicus Cabanis, Mus. Heine I. 126. = Alauda javanica. 
mirafra Cabanis, Wiegm. Archiv 1847. XIII. 328. = Alauda javanica. 
modestus v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1868. XVI. 229. = Alauda Heuglini. 
GEOFFROYUS (Psittacidae.) Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium 1850. I. 6. = Eclectus 
Wagl. 
Synon.: Geoffroy Less. 
