. Birds of the Boston Public Garden : a study in migration . of cuckoo cameseveral times distinctly to the ear in the 68 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN forenoon of May 19, 1907, a day which sur-passed all other days but one in the series ofyears in respect to the number of migrantbirds within the Garden inclosure. Thetemperature was 80°, following a warmnight, and the migration movement hadbeen very large. With sixteen species ofwarblers, numbering seventy-four recordedindividuals, had come many catbirds, somelate purple finches, and even a blue Cuckoo appears to have been drawnirresistibl
. Birds of the Boston Public Garden : a study in migration . of cuckoo cameseveral times distinctly to the ear in the 68 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN forenoon of May 19, 1907, a day which sur-passed all other days but one in the series ofyears in respect to the number of migrantbirds within the Garden inclosure. Thetemperature was 80°, following a warmnight, and the migration movement hadbeen very large. With sixteen species ofwarblers, numbering seventy-four recordedindividuals, had come many catbirds, somelate purple finches, and even a blue Cuckoo appears to have been drawnirresistibly into this mixed company. Itmust be regarded as a rare bird in theGarden. This is the only record which hasbeen obtained. 16. Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythrophthalmus One record, and one record only, of thisspecies of cuckoo has been obtained by May 30, 1908, a Black-billed Cuckoowas seen sitting quietly on a bough of thelarge white willow which stands at thenorthwest corner of the pond. At first thebird sat crosswise of the bough, later hori-. BELTED KINGFISHER 69 zontally along it. I saw it eat a near cater-pillar, but otherwise it was inactive. Itwas also silent. But the close approachwhich I was able to make revealed it to bea black-billed bird. Mr. E. E. Caduc informs me that he sawa Black-billed Cuckoo daily in the Gardenbetween June 8 and 17 of the same year,that it was always seen in one of two orthree maples near the northeast corner ofthe pond, that he searched carefully for apossible mate, thinking that a nesting of thespecies might be going forward, but that hefound none, and that the bird was not seenafter June 17, although he continued hisdaily visits up to July 3. The bird, he says,not infrequently gave its call. 17. Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon Mr. Francis H. Allen states that he sawa Kingfisher flying over the Granary Bury-ing-Ground, and probably also visible fromthe Common, on September 21, 1896. Mr. Bradford Torrey records that twice 70 BIRDS
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