. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Fig. Caterpillar ot the Fig. 121. —Spiny elm catei-plllar. SONGLJESS BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 265 Cuckoos, the Black-billed Cuckoo is the more common inMassachusetts, and is therefore probably the more , locusts, and other insects are often eaten, butpractically no cultivated fruit and no grain. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Coccyzus americanu
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Fig. Caterpillar ot the Fig. 121. —Spiny elm catei-plllar. SONGLJESS BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 265 Cuckoos, the Black-billed Cuckoo is the more common inMassachusetts, and is therefore probably the more , locusts, and other insects are often eaten, butpractically no cultivated fruit and no grain. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Coccyzus americanus americanus. Length. — About twelve inches. Adult. — Bill black above, yellow beneath; upper parts olive-brown, with graytints and metallic lusters; under parts white; a bright cinnamon tint onwings; two inner tail feathers olive; outer tail feathers blackish, two withwhite outer edge; all but two inner tail feathers broadly tipped with white. Nest. — A loose mass of sticks, in a bush or tree. ^99s. — Usually larger and lighter colored than those of the preceding species. Season. — May to September. This bird is long and slender, but it is a little larger andmore robust in appearance than the Black-billed Cuckoo. Anear view will show the ye
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