Nombres comunes: Cuclillo pico amarillo (Argentina, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela), Cuco americano (Colombia), Cuclillo piquigualdo (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), Primavera de pico amarillo (Cuba), Pájaro bobo pico amarillo (República Dominicana), Cucu pico amarillo (Honduras), Cuclillo alas rojizas (Paraguay); Ahogado, Tuyá-pucá; En guaraní: “Toutou” (de la Peña, 2020:96).
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Breves apuntes históricos:
- Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, & les Isles Bahama. Catesby, Mark. Printed at the expence of the author in Hoxton, MDCCXXXI-MDCCXLIII [i.e. 1729-1747] Vol I: Ilustración 9 (Cuculus caroliniensis)
- Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, Martinet, François Nicolas. Parisiis: Ad Ripam Augustinorum, apud Cl. Joannem-Baptistam Bauche, bibliopolam, ad Insigne S. Genovesae, & S. Joannis in Deserto, 1760. Vol IV: 110; Lámina IX (Coucou de S. Domingue)
- Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle. Martinet, F.N, Buffon, G.L.L, Daubenton, Edme-Louis. Paris?: s.n.,1765-1783? Vol IX: lámina 816 (Coucou de la Caroline)
- Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d’oiseaux. Lesson, R. P. , Prêtre, J. G. Bruxelles: Chez F.G. Levrault; 1831. Vol I: 142 (Piaya americana)
- Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens: Resultate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren, 1817 bis 1835. Pelzeln, August von, Natterer, Johann. Wien: A. Pichler’s Witwe & Sohn, 1871: 273 (Coccyzus bairdi)
- Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Ornithologie. Bonnaterre, abbé, Bénard, Robert, Vieillot, L. P. A Paris: Chez Mme. veuve Agasse …, 1823. pt 3:1343; Lámina CCXX (Fig.2) (Le coucou de la Caroline)
- On the natural history and classification of birds. Swainson, William. London: John Taylor, 1836-1837. Vol II: 322 (Erythrophrys carolinensis)
- Birds of America: from drawings made in the United States and their territories. Audubon, John James, Bowen, John T. New York: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. Vol IV: 293-299; Ilustración 275 (Coccyzus americanus)
- The genera of birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. Gray, George Robert, Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, Mitchell, D. W. , Hullmandel & Walton. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. Vol II: Ilustración 115 (Fig.2) (Coccyzus americanus)
- Conspectus generum avium. Bonaparte, Ch.L. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud E. J. Brill, 1850-1857. Vol I: 112 (Coccyzus dominicus)
- Museum ornithologicum Heineanum. Cabanis, Jean Louis, Heine, Ferdinand. Halbertstadt: In Commission bei R. Frantz, 1850-1863. Vol IV: pt.1: 75 (Coccygus americanus)
- The birds of North America: the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Baird, Spencer Fullerton Cassin, John, Lawrence, George N. Philadelphia :J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860: 76-77 (Coccygus americanus)
- American ornithology. Wilson, Alexander, Baird, Spencer Fullerton, Bonaparte, Charles Lucian. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1871] Atlas v1-2: lámina 28 (Fig.1) (Carolina Cuckoo)
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Birds]. London, 1874-98. Shelley G.E. Vol XIX: 308-309 (Coccyzus americanus)
- Argentine ornithology. A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. Sclater, P.L, Hudson, W. H. London: R. H. Porter, 1888-89. Vol II: 37 (Coccyzus americanus)