ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTICES 
By H. E. STRICKLAND. 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF G0GCYZU8 FROM TRINIDAD. 
COCCI ZUS PUMILUS, Strickland. 
Plate LXXXII. 
Above , pale brownish-grey, wings darker, tail fuscous near the 
base, the rest black, narrowly tipped with white. Chin, throat, and 
upper breast deep chestnut rufous ; rest of lower parts and lower 
wing-coyers pale fulvous. Beak black, legs bluish. 
Total length, 7 • 3 ; beak to front, 8 ; to gape, i ; wing, 4.2; 
medial rectrices, 3.7; external, 3; tarsus, 9. 
Habitat, Trinidad. 
Remarkable for its small size and moderately rounded tail. 
I may remark, that Dr. Hartlaub and the Prince of Canino unite 
the “ Coucou” of Azara, No. 267 ( Goccyzus melacoryphus , Vieill.) 
of Paraguay and Chili to the Goccyzus minor (Gm.), ( G. seniculus , 
Lath.), of Cayenne, the West Indies, and the United States. They 
are however quite distinct, the C. melaeoryphus being smaller, the 
beak much shorter and wholly black, while G. minor has the basal 
half of the lower mandible yellow. 
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