. "Every bird;" a guide to the identification of the birds of woodland, beach and ocean. With one hundred and twenty-four line illustrations . nianus. Distribution: An uncommon resident of New England in thickly woodedregions. General Ilumage: Brown, rusty, whitish, long wing feathers and tail barred,white marking on throat, large ear tufts Bill and clawsblackish, legs feathered. Length about Song and Other Notes: Wild unearthly screams and cries, loud hootings and oftensoft low notes. Haunts: A bird of thickly wooded regions. No. 19. YELLOW BILLED CUCKOO. (See cut on opposite page.) Or
. "Every bird;" a guide to the identification of the birds of woodland, beach and ocean. With one hundred and twenty-four line illustrations . nianus. Distribution: An uncommon resident of New England in thickly woodedregions. General Ilumage: Brown, rusty, whitish, long wing feathers and tail barred,white marking on throat, large ear tufts Bill and clawsblackish, legs feathered. Length about Song and Other Notes: Wild unearthly screams and cries, loud hootings and oftensoft low notes. Haunts: A bird of thickly wooded regions. No. 19. YELLOW BILLED CUCKOO. (See cut on opposite page.) Order: Coccyges. Genus: Coccyzus. Family: Cuculidae. Species: C. americanus. Distribution: A common summer resident of southern New England. Date of Arrival: Last of of Departure: Early Plumage: Upper parts bronze brown, wings marked with cinnamon; under pails while, outer tail iealhers black and white. Bill, upper mandible, black, under^ almost yellow, feet black. Length about Song and Other Notes: An unmusical kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk, often Aaried. Haunts: ^^oodland orchard and swamp growths. WOODLAND BIRDS. 21. No. 20. BLACK BILLED CUCKOO. Species: C. erythrophthalmus. Distribution: A common summer resident of all New England, but morecommon in the inhabited regions of the southern portions. Date of Arrival: Last of May. Date of Departure: Early September. General Plumage: Similar to preceding species, red eye ring, outer tail featherstipped with white and showing a little black. Billj black, andfeet black. Length about Song and Other Notes: Like those of the preceding species, but perhaps less : Similar to preceding species. 22 WOODLAND BIRDS.
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