(DWARF CUCKOO.)
+Coccyzus pumilus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 108; _Barrows, Auk_,
1884, p. 28, (Entrerios).
_Description._--Above brownish cinereous, head grey; tail like the
back, but tail-end black with narrow white tips: beneath, throat and
breast chestnut-red; abdomen white; under wing-coverts and crissum
ochraceous: whole length 9·0 inches, wing 4·0, tail 4·2. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ South America.
Of this little Cuckoo, the smallest of the genus _Coccyzus_, specimens
were obtained by Mr. Barrows at Concepcion in Entrerios, in the month of
December. The species was only previously known to occur in Venezuela
and Colombia.
Fam. XXVIII. RHAMPHASTIDÆ, or TOUCANS.
In the second edition of his 'Monograph of the Toucans,' Gould admits 51
species of this fine and peculiar group, which are scattered over the
forests of Tropical America, from Southern Mexico to Northern Argentina.
Several others have been since described.
The Toucans are large birds exclusively arboreal in their habits, and
feeding mostly, if not entirely, upon fruit. A single species of wide
distribution reaches its southern limit in the forests of the northern
Argentine provinces.