_Cuculus telephonus_ Heine, Journ. f. Ornith., 1863, p. 332. (Type
locality, Japan.)
_Cuculus canorus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1872, pp. 89, 100 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875,
pp. 4, 12 (Palau); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 10 (Pelew); Takatsukasa and
Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 63 (Pelew).
_Cuculus canorus telephonus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 57 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 181 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
201 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Asia and Japan. Winters
south to India, Malaysia, and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Palau
Islands--exact locality not given.
_Remarks._--The Common Cuckoo is a straggler on winter migration to the
Palau Islands.
=Cuculus saturatus horsfieldi= Moore