. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . 4. Remarks. — The smaller size ■ »•*• •^•^•.y; ^■^^_J^=^^ Ai, smaller and weaker bill dis- ^- -■ tinguisli tills s))eci(S from the (alifornia ciukoo. hislrVtntion. — Eastern teini)»rate North America, breeding from Flor-ida iu)rth to New Brunswick. Canada, and Miiniesota ; west to SouthDakota, Nebraska. Indian Territory, and Texas ; wintering scmth to CostaItica and the West Indies; casually to cistern Colorado, ^^vonling. andNoith Dakota. 196 AN
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . 4. Remarks. — The smaller size ■ »•*• •^•^•.y; ^■^^_J^=^^ Ai, smaller and weaker bill dis- ^- -■ tinguisli tills s))eci(S from the (alifornia ciukoo. hislrVtntion. — Eastern teini)»rate North America, breeding from Flor-ida iu)rth to New Brunswick. Canada, and Miiniesota ; west to SouthDakota, Nebraska. Indian Territory, and Texas ; wintering scmth to CostaItica and the West Indies; casually to cistern Colorado, ^^vonling. andNoith Dakota. 196 ANIS, ROAD-RUNNERS, AND CUCKOOS Nest. — A slight platform of sticks in trees. Eggs : 2 to 4, bluish — Largely caterpillars, but also grasshoppers, potato bugs, andother insects. Though au eastern bird, the yellow-billed cuckoo is sometimesfound in the cottonwoods bordering irrigation ditches in southernNew Mexico. As it moves about in a trcetop looking for caterpil-lars, it shows the large white thumb-marks of the under side of itstail, and as it flies down to a fence shows the striking reddishbrown of its wings. As a family the cuckoos are little in evidence,being generally hidden in some thick leafy cover looking for cater-pillars. When they do fly their long slender bodies pass swiftly byin a straight line to disappear in other cover. Their presence would often be wholly unknown but for theirnotes, which, like the peacocks, are considered a sign of rain — raincrows they are commonly called in consequence. They have avariety of notes, the commonest being, as Ma
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