. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . U, B, g, 1. 1-10. Rather small owls with long wings andlegs, short tails, and small eyes; facial Fig. 216. •disk very Burrowing Owls. Speotyto. Characters as above; nests, placed inholes in the ground. 1, BURROWING OWL, S. hypo-GAEA. : yellowish-white barredand spotted with reddish or yellowishbrown, the dark color predominatingabove. Western U. S. from the Great J^ VPlains to the Pacific; accidental in N. Y. /( jand Mass. U, B, h. V. CTJCIiOOS. Ouciili. Slender birds of varying size but never very small, withlong tails,
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . U, B, g, 1. 1-10. Rather small owls with long wings andlegs, short tails, and small eyes; facial Fig. 216. •disk very Burrowing Owls. Speotyto. Characters as above; nests, placed inholes in the ground. 1, BURROWING OWL, S. hypo-GAEA. : yellowish-white barredand spotted with reddish or yellowishbrown, the dark color predominatingabove. Western U. S. from the Great J^ VPlains to the Pacific; accidental in N. Y. /( jand Mass. U, B, h. V. CTJCIiOOS. Ouciili. Slender birds of varying size but never very small, withlong tails, compact plumage, and two toes in front sind twobehind. A. ANIS. Crotopliagidae. Slender cuckoos black in color, with long tails of eightfeathers, long wings and bill compressed, and with the cul-jnen of upper mandible elevated and ridge-like, plate DlRECTOlir TO BIRDS OF EASTKKK NORTH AMERICA. 175 a. Black Cuckoos. Crotophaga. Characters as above. 1. ANI, C. ANi. ; feathers of head and neck mar-gined with a bronzy iridescence. West Indies, Bahamas, andeastern S. A., casual in southern Fla, and La.; accidental inPenn. Cries, loud and in a minor tone. Flight, heavy andjay-like. Social at all times, several females placing theireggs in one nest, probably polygamous. B. AMERICAN CUCKOOS. Coccyziclae. Slender cuckoos with long, graduated tails and smootlnplumage; space around eye, naked. a. Brown-Backed Cuckoos. Coccyzus. Brown above, white beneath with more or less white ontip of tail. Nests, in bushes; eggs, blue, unspotted and de-posited irregularly. Feathers of tibia elongated. Flight,,steady and direct with rather rapid wing-beats, suggesting apigeon. 1. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, C. ; tail, dark, outer Fig. 217. feathers, broadly tippedwith white; wing,strongly tinged with cin-namon ; under mandible,yellow; spac
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