. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ^w^ UOADIIUNNER CUCKOOS, ETC. 384. Groove-billed Ani. Crotophaga sulcirostris. Range.—Mexico and the border of the UnitedStates; common in southern Texas. This oddspecies has a Cuckoo-like form, but is whollyblue black in color, and has a high thin billwith three conspicuous longitudinal grooves oneach side. They buildlarge bulky nests oftwigs, lined withleaves and grasses,and located in lowtrees and bushes. Theybuild in small colo-nies but d
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ^w^ UOADIIUNNER CUCKOOS, ETC. 384. Groove-billed Ani. Crotophaga sulcirostris. Range.—Mexico and the border of the UnitedStates; common in southern Texas. This oddspecies has a Cuckoo-like form, but is whollyblue black in color, and has a high thin billwith three conspicuous longitudinal grooves oneach side. They buildlarge bulky nests oftwigs, lined withleaves and grasses,and located in lowtrees and bushes. Theybuild in small colo-nies but do not, as isclaimed of the com-mon Ani, build a largenest for several to oc-cupy. They lay fromthree to five eggs of a greenish blue color, cov-ered with a chalky white deposit. Size They are laid in May or Greenish blue
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