. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttal's Manual. Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. \ KLL0\V-13ILLF:D CUCK0(). RAIN CROW. CuCCVZUS AM KRICA N US. Char. Uiijier maiulihlL' nnd tij) of lower, black; rest of lower mandi- ble and ciittinj; lcji^cs nf npptr, yellow. Upper parts olive, with a slight metallic gli)>s, linked with asii toward the bill ; wings tinged with rut'ous; middle feathers <h or low tree. A flat, frail affair made of twij. loosely laid, sometimes lined with bark strijis or grass. /;';.;'.
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttal's Manual. Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. \ KLL0\V-13ILLF:D CUCK0(). RAIN CROW. CuCCVZUS AM KRICA N US. Char. Uiijier maiulihlL' nnd tij) of lower, black; rest of lower mandi- ble and ciittinj; lcji^cs nf npptr, yellow. Upper parts olive, with a slight metallic gli)>s, linked with asii toward the bill ; wings tinged with rut'ous; middle feathers <h or low tree. A flat, frail affair made of twij. loosely laid, sometimes lined with bark strijis or grass. /;';.;'.*"• --6 (usually 4) ; pale dull green or bluish green; ; X The American Cuckoo arrives in the middle and coldc States of the Union about the close of April or the first wee of May, and proceeds to the north as far as Nova Scoti. It probably winters in Nfexico, and individuals pass no farth than the forests of Louisiana. We also met with it in tli remote Territory of Oregon. Latham speaks of these bin also as inhabitants of the tropical island of Jamaica. Th delight in the shady retirement of the forest, and are eqiiall common in tall thickets and orchards, where, like i)irati(;; prowlers, they skulk and hide among the thickest boughs ; an( although, tnilike the Kuropean Cuckoo, they are faithfully pairi( "et the pair are seldom seen in the same tree, but, shy am vvatchful, endeavor to elude everything like close observation cr (.*\. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924; Nuttall, Thomas. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Boston : Little, Brown
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