-Clamator jacobinus  Woodland, deciduous forest, scrub, farmlands.  Sometimes placed in the genus Oxylophus.  The two widely allopatric populations may be separate species. - C. j. jacobinus Lowlands and mts. to 4300 m from e Iran and Afghanistan e through Pakistan, India, Nepal and s Tibet to c,s Burma. --                      - -                        - Clamator L. clamator (clamore, grida)                         - jacobinus jacobin (frate domenicano) -C. j. pica  Senegambia, s Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, s Niger, Cameroon, Gabon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad, s Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and S. Africa.  Incl. C. serratus, which seems to be a black morph in e,s Africa, not a separate species.  - --                                           no photo -

Clamator glandarius Open woodland, savanna, scrub, olive groves.  In w Mediterranean region (Iberian Pen., s France, cw Italy, Sardinia, and from Morocco to Tunisia; from Turkey and Cyprus, e through n Iraq to sw Iran, and s to n Egypt and Near East.  Senegambia, s Mali, s Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, s Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and c,s Sudan to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe and S. Africa.  Definite breeding known in n savanna areas, lowlands of w,e Africa, and s Africa s to lat. 27°S in w Cape Prov., Transvaal and Natal.  Parasitize corvids and sturnids. -                           -             -              -glandarius L. glandarius (ghianda), riferito a questo              -uccello mangiatore di ghiande - -

Chrysococcyx caprius Open woodland, acacia savanna, villages.  From extreme sw Mauritania, Senegambia e across s Mali, s Niger, Cameroon, Bioko I., s Chad, s Sudan to Ethiopia, Somalia and se Arabia, and s to s S. Africa.  Recorded in every subSaharan African country except Djibouti. - ----- --           -Chrysococcyx Gr. khrusos (oro) + kokkux (cuculo)        -    caprius dal nome del d'Aubenton, in :                     Coucou verd du cap de bonne-Esperance --

Clamator jacobinus Jacobin Cuckoo - Vagrant (Chad) - *no map

Clamator glandarius Great spotted Cuckoo Uncommon has bred: Sardegna, Grecia  Algeria, Tunisia, Libano, Marocco, Syria, Giordania

Chrysococcyx caprius Diederik Cuckoo Didric or Dideric Vagrant   - (Cypro) * no map

Cuculus canorus Open woodland, forest edge, towns, taiga, steppe forest, scrubby areas, bush.  From British Isles and n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Anadyrland and Kamchatka, and s to nw Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, n Mediterranean region incl. most islands, Turkey, Near and Middle East, Pakistan, n India (Himalayas to 5250 m from Kashmir e to Sikkim), n,c Burma, s China, Hainan I., n Vietnam in Tonkin, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu) and Kuril Is.  Vagrant or rare migrant in w Alaska.  Winters s to s Africa, India, se Asia, Philippines and, rarely, Greater Sunda Is. and w Micronesia. -      -                       -                          - -                                    -Cuculus L. cuculus (cuculo)                 -canorus L. canorus (melodioso) [canere, cantare] - -

Cuculus saturatus  Forest, edge, heavy woodland, thickets, second growth.  From nc Russia e through n Siberia to Anadyrland and Kamchatka, and s to sw Siberia, n Mongolia, e,s China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Kuril Is.; lowlands to 1500 m in Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Lesser Sunda Is.  Vagrant or rare migrant in w Alaska.  Resident Malaysian populations (lepidus) formerly were treated as a subspecies of C. poliocephalus.  - The northern migratory race (horsfieldi) meets the nominate race (C. s. saturatus) in China with little or no intergradation, but the contact has not been studied in detail. -----  -                           -       -            saturatus L. saturatus (colorato riccamente) - -

Coccyzus erythropthalmus Forest, open woodland.  From ec,se Alberta and s Saskatchewan e across s Canada to New Brunswick, Prince Edward I. and Nova Scotia, and s to se Wyoming, e Colorado, Kansas, e Oklahoma, nc Texas, n Arkansas, Tennessee, n Alabama and S. Carolina. --    --    -----        ---                   -                -                -Coccyzus Gr. kokkuzo (cuculo lamentoso)     -erythropthalmus Gr. eruthros (rosso) + -ophthalmos (occhio) - -

Cuculus canorus Common Cuckoo European Cuckoo Common has bred: Cipro, Siria, Libano

Cuculus saturatus Oriental Cuckoo - -Fairly common

Coccyzus erythrophthalmus Black-billed Cuckoo -- Vagrant (w.Europa, Azorre) * no map

Coccyzus americanus Open woodland, forest, towns, riparian woodland.  From w Washington, int. Calif., n Utah, Wyoming, N. Dakota, s Manitoba, s Ontario, sw Quebec and s New Brunswick s to n Mexico, Gulf coast and s Florida; e to Virgin Is., probably Bahamas and n Lesser Antilles.  Becoming rare in California due to habitat destruction. -                  -  -  -     americanus, America: coniato da Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512),   usato per la prima volta dal cartografo Martin Waldseemuller nel 1507,   fu ripreso dal Coues (1882) riferendolo al nome indiano nicaraguegno   Americ , catena montuosa . --

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Centropus senegalensis Thickets, scrub, bush.  S Mauritania and Senegambia e across s Mali, s Niger, s Chad, Egypt and s Sudan to Ethiopia, nw Somalia, w Kenya, sc,ne Tanzania, Malawi and s to nw Angola, Zambia, ne Namibia, n Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.  Recorded in every subSaharan African country except Eritrea, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda and Burundi. A rufous color morph formerly was treated as a separate species, C. epomidis.  Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993, p. 335) erroneously state that "Sibley and Monroe (1990) "have resurrected the idea that C. epomidis is a good species."  We did not.  See S&M p. 104. - -              -             -Centropus Gr.kentron (punta) + pous (piede)             senegalensis Senegal, West Africa -

Coccyzus americanus Yellow-billed Cuckoo Vagrant   -(w.Europa, Azorre,  Marocco) * no map

Centropus senegalensis Senegal Coucal Fairly common