. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . buff. Dimensions a little less. Bahamas andthe Florida Keys. 4. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (387. Coccffzus americanus). — Acommon, long, slender, long-tailed, brownish-gray bird, with a slender, curved bill and con-spicuously white-tipped outertail feathers. The under partsare whitish, the wings havemuch cinnamon color, and theunder mandible is yellow atbase. This bird destroys great numbers of that pest of ourYellow billed Cuckoo . .■■ . . .,, trees, — the tent caterpillar.
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . buff. Dimensions a little less. Bahamas andthe Florida Keys. 4. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (387. Coccffzus americanus). — Acommon, long, slender, long-tailed, brownish-gray bird, with a slender, curved bill and con-spicuously white-tipped outertail feathers. The under partsare whitish, the wings havemuch cinnamon color, and theunder mandible is yellow atbase. This bird destroys great numbers of that pest of ourYellow billed Cuckoo . .■■ . . .,, trees, — the tent caterpillar. Its notes are a harsh, grating d-uck, d-uck varied by coir, cow. (Rain crow.) Length, 12 ; wing, 5| (5i-6) ; tail, 6 ; tarsus, 1 ; culmen, 1. KasternNorth America; breeding from Florida to Canada and Miimesota, andwintering south of the United States to Central America. r». Black-billed Cuckoo (388. Coccf/zus erythrophthdlmus). —A bird similar to the last in form, colors, and habits, but withless white and no black on the tail, the under mandible black,and no cinnamon on the wings. The voice is less FAM. XXVI. PARROTS AND PAROQUETS 183 Length, llf ; wing, bh (5|-5|) ; tail, 6}; culmen, 1. North Americafrom the Rocky Mountains eastward; breeding from the Gulf of Mexicoto Labrador, and wintering south of the United States to northern SouthAmerica. ORDER V. PARROTS, MACAWS, ETC. iPSITTACI) An order of about 500 species of almost exclusively tropicalbirds, here represented by only one, belonging to: FAMILY XXVL PARROTS AND PAROQUETS (PSITTACIDiE) A large family (400 species) of tropical, gaudily colored,harsh-voiced, hooked and cered-billed birds; having feet withtwo toes in front and two behind, which they use for walking,climbing, and as hands. Their discordant voices are, in mostspecies, readily trained to utter the words of human are inhabitants of dense forests. When necessary, theyfly well. They live upon fruits and seeds. 1. Carolina Paroquet (
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